The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 117. Che Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Germans CounterattacksBy tren ENGLAND PREPARES TO COMBAT NAZI PARA- CHUTE - TROOP TACKS (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 15.—The Ger- man High Command communique this morning announced that Nazi troops had crossed the Meuse. river on broad fronts and that French counter-attacks in the Sedan area, on the west bank of the river had been repulsed. Allied counter-claims, ever, stated that the occupied by Nazi troops did not constitute danger- ous threats to the main line Maginot fortifications which were situated well in the rear of terri- tory in which major battles of the new “total war” were being fought. Allied dispatches indicated that more than 1,000,000 men were now engaged in swift maneuvers. Division after division is being thrown into the long, 150-mile front at points threatened by at- tack. Aerial bombardment con- tinue apace, with both claiming major victories. Recapitulation of Holland late yesterday has brought on a major problem in England, and an- nouncement was made here this morning of a movement on foot to guard home territory against imminent danger of attack from the air. Establishment of large-scale air bases will come, it is felt, as soon as the Nazis finish mopping up work in towns yet occupied by snipers. Considerable delay may come from the fact that Dutch set fire to innumerable stores of oil and gasoline as they moved out of main cities in front of at- tacking Germans. Airport han- gars were blown up and, in gen- eral, much was done to hinder the invaders as much as possible. In Belgium, the situation be- comes increasingly critical. While the Allies insist the main fortress at Liege has not fallen, it is known that German lines are drawing closer in an_ encircle- ment of that famous fort and de- fense lines in the vicinity. British troops have moved forward to protect the second-line of Belgian defenses in the area between Antwerp and Brussels. French and British bombers are busily engaged in destruction of German pontoon bridges thrown across the Meuse river at several places. Nazis claim that 70 Allied planes have been shot down in the last two days. Scenes all through the British Isle today were reginiscent of World War No. 1, as. the citi- zenry-at-large prepared for the expected air raids to come—at long last. Checking of to be moved out of danger a is going ahead at a fast rate and volunteers by the thousands have come forward to organize into units to combat chute-troop arrivals in the near future. The British navy continues to hammer away at Dutch seaport cities with several ships station- ed far-off shore aiming huge guns at areas now occupied by the Nazis. area now sides BABY TRAVELS ALONE CHICAGO.—Little Johnny Hal- liman, 17 months old, was. forced to make a train trip from Kansas City to Chicago alone when his mother, Mrs. John Halliman, missed a Santa Fe train. A rail- road nurse cared for the baby un-' til his mother arrived on another train an hour later. AT-} how-, blitzkrieg “ s within the next six months—be- expected para-! Fi Reulse At Sedan UNITED STATES CASTS ANXIOUS EYES ON ITALY| i GIVE UP HOPES THAT MUS- ! SOLINI WILL STAY OUT oF | WAR: PREPARE TO EVACU-| ATE CITIZENS j i (By Associated WASHINGTO: State Department anxious eyes on the ean Sea today with the realiza- tion that hopes entertained a short time ago that Italy would! stay out of the war were all but j completely given up. Dispatches from Ambassador Phillips at Rome appear to be causing the apprehension. Con- centration on protection and evac- uation of American citizens in Italy were the main themes of conferences now being held. De- cision on future of consulates in that nation was to be left up to; the ambassador, according present plans. Secretary Earley today stated that President Roosevelt had made no further mention of his scheduled 21-day tour of the country to be made next month. He said that the new war condi- tions may cancel arrangements for most of the trip, if not all of it. Roosevelt was busy again to- day preparing an extraordinary defense message to be delivered to congress this weekend. No further details of his plan to create a huge fund to build and maintain additional defensive} armaments were given out. In congress, the 1941 Relief Bill was coming up for passage. | The measure calls for an ex- penditure of $975,000,000 during! the first eight months of the next} fiscal period. The House floor} will receive the bill tomorrow and the vote is expected by next | Tuesday. Press) H M 15.—j; officials cast Mediterran- to! | SUCCESS OF NAZIS |new industry if the present plans cost of $2,960}000 by the Florida; DEPENDS ON OIL. : U. S. OFFICIALS DECLARE! HITLER GAMBLES ON QUICK VICTORY i (By Associated Prensa» NEW YORK, May that will decide the war in Europe, according to ex- i pert opinion of oil magnates in} the United States. | These oilmen, posted on pres- ent supplies and production in} Europe, state that apparently | Hitler is playing a huge gamble to accomplish full victory of ail objectives against the Allies 15.—It’s oil | fate of the fore present stocks gasoline give out. The experts agree that Gep. many mystibe exdeadingfy Aoyt J* in cil supplies. Possibifity of 6b?} taining more oil for blitzkrieg maneuvers of mechanized units! and her huge air armada, is all’ wrapped up in the premise of; whether or not. Rumania and/ Russia can offset the deficits ex- | isting in stocks. | MARTINS FERRY, Ohio—Re-} fused a small loan by his em-} ployer, William Sevastis, 53-year- old restaurant waiter, went be- serk and turned a pistol on the — of oil and ANGRY WAITER KILLS 3 | program, ! Project ition, recreation, the arts, isupervision of tout 5,000 white mulberry } to be junemployed oh a gigantic \~ |WPA OPEN HOUSE ‘ WEEK SCHEDULED | ALL OVER STATE "REPORT TO THE TAXPAYERS’ WILL BE MAIN THEME OF | WEEK, CHIEF ROY ao eel DER STATES JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May; (FNS).—The Professional and Service Projects of the Works Progress Administration will hold “open house” through- out the state from May 20 to 23, Roy Schroder, State WPA chief, announced this week. The five-day period will be de- veloped as a “report to the tax- payers”, Schroder said. “During the past five years va- rious projects of the Professional and Service Division of the Works Projects Administration have op- erated in many Florida communi- ties and these projects all con- tribute to the welfare of the citi- zens of these communities. We want the public to become better acquainted with the variety, scope and methods of the WPA With this in view, Dinners wil 1 be held 15 {throughout the state on May 20, and it is hoped that the public will attend these unit-sponsored affairs in order to become better acquainted with the people who have accomplished the various work programs”. This program embraces educa- | public health and hospital work, sewing and other production work; home !economics which includes school lunches and distribution of sur- plus commodities; research and ,Survey project as well as the in- dexing and rehabilitation of pub-! lic records, under the general Mrs. Rolla | Southworth, director of the Di- vision. Local announcement of a sup- per to start the week off was made this week. It will be held next Monday night at Stone Church Annex. Further particu- lars of the week’s program will be released shortly, it was stated today. SILK FARM MAY COME TO STATE CHICAGO PROMOTER TO EX. | PERIMENT WITH PROJECT IN PALM BEACH COUNTY ST PALM BEACH, May 15 —The scrub palmetto es of Palm Beach county may become the scene of a vast tof Mrs. Frank J, Lewis, of Chi- cago, meet with success. Conducting experiments with |silk works, Mrs. Lewis has set trees, with an additional ten thousand set out in the near future, with the aim in view of creating jobs for hundreds of the present “silk farm”. Mrs. Lewis now has thousands of the smal] cocoons, which feed on the mulberry leaves, but as yet the business is operated on a very small scale. As the farm is developed, the silk from the co- coons will be reeled off on spe- cial apparatus at the farm and bundled for sale. > From moth to silk requires a period of from 25 to 30 days, and each moth lays from 500 to 800 eggs at a time. Special! Special! 6-DAY HAVANA TOUR in connegtion with excur- 4% DAYS AND 5 NIGHTS IN HAVANA room trans- May 16th Sailing Only ra — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940 Red! Cr a4 ares l0 Appeal F For Funds | LOCAL QUOTA IN NEW W NATIONWIDE DRIVE IS $600; NEED FOR CO-OPERATION IS URGENT Charles Taylor, local chairman of the Red Cross organization, has issued a call for a meeting of all interested persons, ineluding! ! “With the invasion of Holland, ' Belgium and Luxembourg the} | war has entered a phase which! MANY ViSITED HOSPITAL AND \CAMPAIGN TO BUILD CRIP-| PLED CHILDREN’S INSTITU- TION CONTINUES: SEEK 100° PER CENT MEMBERSHIPS (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, May 15.—All roads last Sunday led to the property |where the South Florida Crippled Children’s Hospital and School organization members and busi- | Will inevitably and at once bring! will be built, in Shenley Park ness people, to be held in the widespread and appalling suffer-j {just three blocks west of Red near future to consider fulfill-|ing to millions of helpless men, Road, and directly west of the ment of new relief quota ascribed; to Key West by the national ganizatton. The emergency now at hand is brought on by demands now .or- }womien and children. In order jto inaugurate widespread relief measures, the American Cross is at once launching a Red | Miami Biltmore Hotel _ A miniature model of the hos- pital was on display, flags and !pennants were a-flutter marking made on the Red Cross organ- |tampaign of a minimum war re- ; the outlines of the 35 acres being ization by reason of the war in'Jief fund of ten million dollars. given to the hospital by the South Europe which has spread to ad- |Your chapter quota is 600 dol- ‘Florida Crippled Children’s So- ditional countries. Specifically, the chapters are asked to step up donations to the Red Cross drive in telegrams sent nationwide by Norman H. Davis, national chairman. The wire sent to the Key West chapter and received early this week reads as follows: TRANSLATION . OF ‘ ars. “Please mobilize at once the: entire leadership of your chapter and community in order that |your quota may be sexceeded without delay. “Chapters may retain fifteen per cent of collections to cover itheir local war relief expenses.” ‘NAZI ‘BLITZKRIEG’ Same Methods Used - Associated Press Germany's _ invasions much the same pattern. Prop- agandists headed by Propaganda ,Minister Goebbels hetp prepare for them, assert they were brought on by threats to German | interests. Zero hour, and dawn, brings out swarms of bombers, which try to paralyze cpposition by striking at -com- munication lines. A major ob- {jective during the first hours of WORK TO START | ON PAPER MILL DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST PROJECT AIDED BY RFC LOAN ! PENSACOLA, May 15.—(FNS)' Work on Escambia county’s new paper mill, to,be constructed at a Pulp and Paper Company, will begin about June 1, it was_ be- lieved this week by. sources close . to the development. ; Senator Charles* announced in Washington the Reconstruction Finance Cor-} .poration had just made a condi- tional commitment on a loan of $1,760,000 to the company. The money is to be made in the de- velopment of a forest project. The U. S. Geological Survey | has also reported that the pump-: ing of 8,000,000 gaNons of water daily at the Cantonment site would have virtually no effect on that area’s underground water supply. , The company, it is reported,: will own about 125 acres of tim- ber lands and will actually raise trees for sale. Plans call for the construction of a mill which will} manufacture fine paper, high grade white wrapping paper, en- velope paper and writing and tis- sue paper. = MRS. THOMPSON'S SERVICES LATER Mrs. Saddie May Thompson, 47, died today at 11 o'clock in the residence, 923 Eaton street. Fun-/ eral arrangements by the Lopez Funeral Home are to be an- nounced later. Survivors are: The husband.! Charles Edward. Thompson, and between midnight: O. Andrews! All lial, Manewver Feature Service "Rotterdam airport. Usually defense has been weakened by} activities of Nazi agents or sym- Fathizers. Excuse for against the lowlands was that the | Allies had planned to attack Ger-| many through them. Advance agents of army drop! from skies to take strategic points | —or are landed in transport! planes if airports have been won. Dutch charged that sky soldiers| were Dutch army uniforms. Timed with traditional German precision, land forces strike in {motorized columns. These roar} ahead swiftly to catch defenders by surprise, to reinforce the ad- | ; Vance agents, and‘to mop up op-! position. While Nazi air sol- diers were battling far in the in- terior of Holland, the land forces tried to clear a way to them by | striking acrdss the border at va- ,Tious points. To be successful, as it seems almost certain now, ‘these forces have to break} snroey ahora ee lines. SPONGE SALES TOTALLED $3,612 that TOP QUALITY BUNCHES BID/| FOR‘AT MORE THAN $7 AVERAGE One of the largest sales of ; Sponges which had been conduct- ‘ed at the municipal sponge dock was this morning’s when offer-' ings of 873 bunches prices totalling $3,612.61. There were 21 separate offer- !ings ranging from one bunch to} 163 bunches and the choice lots ; {brought excellent prices, som more than $7 a bunch. There was one offering of 20 bunches, which brought a price of $7.77; 110 bunches which were sold for $671; 104 bunches which brought a price of $639.99; :bunches for which $549.59 was paid and 163 which sold \for $1421.21 of 21.2 nf WEE per | bunch. TROOP 51 HAS ‘ Announcement was made this noon that all members of Boy ‘Seout Troop No. 51 are invited to a picnic supper at Rest Beach} ionight at 7:30 o'clock. 1 raised and} brought | 80 | Admen have invited the PICNIC TONIGHT. iciety, which for many years has been providing braces, surgical dressings, and other necessities ‘for crippled children of ten counties. ling friends and members of the ‘hospital corporation, drove around and through the property, stopping to chat with officials jand to ask questions regarding {floor plans, where swimming | pools were to be and to express \ their pleasure that the plot is so | admirably adapted, both as to contour, soil and accessibility. On Monday the corporation in- “jaugurated a two week period to , be known as “100 per cent organ- | LIGHTNING THAT STRIKES IN “NIGHT ization membership period”, dur- ing which time organizations of j the ten counties are asked to jcheck their membership to ascer- tain whether every member follow sthe invasion of Holland was the | taken a membership at one dollar ' the| per person in eath family. Officials have asked that the l office in Miami, at 660 West Flag- action | ef be contacted as soon as such | jacksonville ;100 per cent membership is es- jtablished. Such organizations j will be listed in local papers, ac- ‘cording to W. L. Philbrick, |founder-president of the South {Florida Crippled Children’s So- |ciety and of the Hospital corpora- jtion recently formed to build this! ;Summer a $250,000 hospital and jschool to serve ten counties in- jcluding territory from Vero iBeach to Key West. i Applications may be obtained at West Palm Beach Atlantic Na- \ticnal Bank, Miami, - Miami |stead, First National at Gardner’s Pharmacy West. ADVERTISING MEN Bank and in Key SCHOOL SITE Hundreds of automobiles bear- |Beach, Coral Gables and Home- | } Hl | j j | | Labor NYA HANDLES "NEARLY 1,000 APPLICATIONS SIMPLIFIED EMPLOYMENT PROCEDURE ALLOWS QUICK CONSIDEDATION: FIGURE REPRESENTS NEW ONES a result of As employment in procedur f latter part of Apri been enabled to reach 999 adds jtional young people in Florida 2 of May 13, according t« \tion given out today at | office. The lables youth workers simplified procedure ¢ to receive consideration at amy time by ap plying at the NYA office. Wher ‘contact with the Welfare Board loffice is necessary, the NYA sep [resentative makes the contact The 990 new applications have lbeen made in ali districts, the District recening 1247, Tampa 540, Miami Ke West 15 and Tallahassee Only those between 38 an who are out of school, and ux ployed, can be considered vut-ol-school work program addition to the district offs area offices are located at twenty pots in the state and all offiee are open to the young people ‘who need the employment whoct NYA makes possible Ail youths between the age of 18 and 24, who are miterested in work tiaimmng, whether mem bers of relicf families or not, jurged to call at the local © joffice immediatey neon | MEET THIS WEEK ;TO CONSIDER ‘FLORIDA’S NEXT STEP’ AT ST. PE- TERSBURG ASSEMBLY | ST. PETERSBURG, May (FNS).—Using the theme “Flor- ida’s Next Step” as a keynote, |the Fourth District of the Adver- lising Federation of America, ;comprising the State of {will convene here Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19, and have in- }them. Subjects to be thoroughly dis- cussed will be past, present and jfuture of tourist, agriculture, and |industrial resources of the state. {The Florida Advertising Clubs jare sponsoring the “See Forida’ This Summer” movement togeth- | er with the Florida Association ; of Publicity Directors, the State | Junior Chamber. of Commerce; ‘and other organizations. The Publi- | city Men and the Jaycees, as well : | as other Headquarters will be at Suwannee Hotel, and a series of | elaborate entertainments have} ‘been planned for the visitors. |BRIDE WATCHES i MATE DROWN BRUNSWICK, Ga—wWhile his pate of a week stood frantic on 15} Florida, ' }Vited simiar groups to meet with ; |the beach, W. F. Banta, of Roa-| The affair is in the nature of noke, Va., drowned in the surf at|the Destroyers {LOCAL GROUP STATES DRIVE FOR CONTROL FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL Mrs. of the M. E. Berkowitz. captax Monroe County Divisx of the Women’s Field Army for jthe Control of Cancer, and Miss Susan La Kin, who directed the enlistment campaign for mem berships in the army, expressed sincere thanks today to all whe assisted in the drive which prov ed fairly successful this year In addition to the re-enisst ments of former members there were a number of new ones, and several donations, according to « report of the officers im charge The Junior Woman's Club so- ilicited enlistments and assisted in Various ways m making the jdrive es successful as it was —— GOES ON PATROL There has been little move- May Establish Board MOVE HAS BEEN UNDER CONSIDERATION FOE THREE MONTES. 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PRICE TOURS customers and fatally wounded ; 505 Duval St. three men, seriously wounding I Phone 124! \ [a aT one sister, Mrs. Ray Samuelson.|a reward for the troop in that There are also nieces and nep- all membershad at least one! hews, as -follows: Lorraine, Wal- | parent in attendance at the Scout lace and Eugene Harrington and | Awarding Court held last Friday iPatrick Samuelson. lnight. Sea Island despite the effort of and Aaron Ward, berthed a life guard to save him. Banta B, Destroyers Lea was stricken with a heart attack at the first finger pier, eae ee eee lying ¢ at