The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1940, Page 1

= Associated Press Day Wire =| Che Key Wes ZEN For 69 Years Devoted to the / Best Interests of Key West > THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940 Salesman Committed sUlicide’ Early Today VOLUME LXI. No. 119. Brussels. Neat Fall: 2nd Line FDR WARNS FIRST. DEFENSE REQUEST ‘| IS ONLY BEGINNING MORE APPROPRIATIONS zo| BE SOUGHT ACCORDING TO | SERIOUSNESS OF WAR IN EUROPE | a | FUNDS NOW AVAILABLE WILL GIVE OUT ABOUT! JULY 18TH: MATTER GIVEN | | TO TWO COMMITTEES Bian Defense BELGIAN GOVERNMENT MOVES TO OSTEND; ENGLISH WARNED OF SERIOUS SITUATION (My Associated Vreasy LONDON, May 17.—Late dis- Patches received here today in- dicated that the had smashed through second-line de- Nazis fenses in Belgium and were momentarily expected to take Possession of that nation’s capi- tal city. Brussels. It was announced earlier today that the Belgian government had moved to Ostend. In a series of messages to the British pvess, officials of the war ministry today asked that the English newspapers announce the gravity of the war situation to the British people. Withhold of the attack on Eng- land was thought possible in some quarters here, pending al- leged preparations for a Nazi separate peace gesture towards France. This was not” officially released, but the importance of some sort of a Nazi move in that direction was thought possible. Early today the Allies reported that their planes had conducted bombing raids on military objec- tives in Cologne. Incessant wave after wave of soldiers of both Germany and the Allies wgre being poured into he Belgian ‘and French lines today with over 2,000,000 men in des- perate struggles to bring victory to either side. In one sector of France, the Germans have proceeded into Maginot Line defenses approxi- mately 100 miles from Paris. While admitting no serious dan- ger, French officials have pro- claimed the whole Paris area as a military zone. NAVAL ACTIVITY = IN PORT TODAY B. Broadfoot, al Station this royer Crown- to placing Commander H US.N., left the Na morning on the Des inshield, preparatory the ship in order for regular in- 5 spection Supply Steamer Yuxon of the U. S. navy arrived in port this morning and docked at Pier B and began at once unloading mis- cellaneous supplies for the naval station. Other ve the Destroye: Buchanan, Le: Tender Ganne MRS. THOMPSON’S in the harbor are Aaron Ward. Aulick and the RITES ON SUNDAY ° Funeral of Mrs.- Sadie May Thompson, who died 11 o'clock Wednesday morning-at the resi- dence, 923 Eaton street, will be held at 5 o'clock Sunday after- noon. coc Lopez Funeral’ Home*‘is_ in charge of arrangements. Services will be held from the Congregational church with Rev. Jim Lilly, of Fleming Street Methodist Church, officiating. se iam Raa RRR EVERYBODY'S GOING to the MONTE CARLO NIGHT at Club Cayo Hueso For The Benefit of Navy Relief TONIGHT—3:00 O'CLOCK Prizes and Games Gentlemen $1.00 — Ladies Free SOTTO ML A DOS PASSOS’S TO VISIT NEXT FALL (St. Augustine Record) Mr. and Mrs. John Dos Passos have left for the North after a short stay in this city at the Old Spanish Guest House on the Bay- front. Jchn Des Passos is the author of numerous books and plays, including One Man’s Initiation, Three Sol- diers, Rosinante to the Road Again (a book of essays), A Pushcart at the Curb (verse), Streets of Night. Manhattan Transfer, The Garbage Man (play), The 42nd Parallel, and Nineteen Nineteen. His home is in New York. He told friends here that he expects to return to St, Aug- ustine again in the fall and probably will spend some time in Key West. The Des Passos’s have been visitors in Kev West before, on several cccasions, spending their stays at the home of Ernest Hemingway. noted author. SAFETY PATROL DELEGATION WAS GUEST OF ROTAR HONORED AT MEETING YES- TERDAY; CLUB MEMBERS DETERMINE TO SEND BOYS TO PARADE EACH YEAR Proud members of the Key School Safety Patrol, who march- ed down Constitution Avenue Washington last week bearing West banners in a nationa safety parade, were hailed and jauded at a mecting yesterday of Rotary Club, sponsor of the rganization here. Upshot of the meeting was an expressed determination by members of Rotary Club to send the Key West Patrol to Washing- ton next year and each succeed- ing And next time, it is noped, that the Key West junior troimen will be headed Key West junior band Members of the patrol formed at noon yesterday at Fleming and Bahama streets. They were aring their white trousers, wlue shirts and belts they wore at Washington last week: they were carrving the banners and slogans that appeared so prom- inently in the national parade | Under the leadership of Charles Taylor, chairman of the club's fety patrol committee; Myrt- land Cates, organizer of the patrol, and Bennie present director of the group, the boys marched into the Rotary meeting to assigned plac- es amid the shouts and applause lof the Rotarians. The patrel members were: John Costar, Daniel Sawyer, Robert Dion, Dario Sanchez, Robert Cruz, Myrtland Cates, Herman Cerezo, Charles Baker, Kenneth Kerr, Billy Shaw, Jo- seph Alonso, Frank Rom and Galey Sweeting. Daniel Sawyer, tallest member of the patrol who happens to hail from the southernmost home among the homes of all the other members, was introduced. He told of the trip to and Washington, of the parade, the receptions, and the award to the Key West patrol of a cup em- blematic of the fact the unit was from the southernmost point in the United States. Young Sawyer’s name, as well (Continued on Page Four) year Falls inj by al (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May {President Franklin D. Roosevelt ltoday warned the nation that his |first demand for $1,100,000 to strengthen the United States’ De- | fense system was minimum in extent and stated that more ap- propriations would be sought in fexact proportion to the serious- {ness of the turn of events in Eu- { rope. Meznwhile, Congress eae in legislative effort to jeffect granting of the original | Proposals at the earliest possible jmoment. Most sources thought ‘it possible that full demands would be met in both houses of | Congress some time next week. ! Airplane manufacturers and officials of the army and navy {air departmenst were being call- ed into conference next Monday to ascertain possibliity of ful- filling the President’s demand for fa fighting force of 50,000 planes. | It is planned to concentrate imanufacturing units for the new {planes sought in territory far removed from Atlantic seaboard points. Most planes are now ; being manufactured on the Pa- cific coast—but transportation | proble: would be facilitated |with factories placed nearer the icenter of the nation. CORNICE TOPPLES ONTO SIDEWALK pushed | i { | AT 2:30 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON H = | At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon citizens in the vicinity of the | Cuban Ciub edifice were startled jwhen a loud crash of falling ce- iment and timbers was heard. | Investigation revealed the fact that an overhanging cornice, that had extended over the Jesus Car- mona Ice Cream Parlor and the !Duval Pressing Club had given y and tumbled onto the side- | walk in front of both stores. | No one was hurt in the crash, accountable chiefly that very few passersby were in {the vicinity at the time. | CLOCK WEIGHT IN | CITY TOWER FELL } At exactly 11 o'clock this {morning one of the ponderous weights which control the strik- ling mechanism of the .clock in the city hall tower broke away from the fastenings and fell |} through the cupola, and crashed jin to the office of Chief Ivan | Elwood. City Electrician Theodore Al- \bury and Mechanician Clarence Thompson af once started to re- pair the damage and Mr. Albury {said that new cables will have to |be arranged and two new sheaves ;constructed to get the mechanism fin running order. DOOR FLEW OPEN TO MEET HIM: BLACK EYE ay Associated Presa) HELENA, Mont., May 17.—“I was standing on a corner, a door came along and knocked me cold”. That's a Butte man’s story of how he got a black eye—and he’s sticking ‘to it. He was on the curb waiting to cross an intersection, when a car came along. A-door flew open and the handle struck him and knocked him into a sign-post. A doctor, who vouches for the story, was called to revive him. ‘KODAK Films and Cameras 534 Duval St. . to the fact’ AUTHORITIES UNABLE TO DISCOVER CAUSE FOR | ACT; WIFE HAD ARRIVED SHORTLY BEFORE 1 17— F. M. Davenport, 25, repre-'coroner’s jury and ordered the sentative of the Swift Packing body removed to the Lopez Company, out of Miami, took his Funeral Home. = life at 3:20 this morning by fir- hotel, alias MEE Deoerivet a ing a bullet from a revolver into}been for the last three days, he his right temple which passed'had given no idea of his inten through his head and lodged in a'tion of suicide, other than a corner of the bathroom of his!chance remark overheard to the room at a local hostelry. jeffect that “this is going to be Mr. Davenport’s act was com-}my last call at this hotel”. mitted a short time after the ar-; This morning Solomon Sweet- rival of his wife, Mrs. Martile ing, manager of the Swift office Davenport from Miami. jin Miami, arrived at the hotel The sound of the shot aroused |and conferred with Coroner Aren- employees of the hotel who went berg, Deputy Sheriff Ray Elwood at once to the scene and found Benjamin Sawyer and Mrs Mr. Davenport lying on the floor Davenport, and after looking of the room, with blood trickling ‘over the effects and reports of from the wound. Word was at'Mr. Davenport, said that every- once sent to the office of the/thing was in perfect shape and sheriff and Deputy Ray Elwood ‘all accounts correct. was sent to inform Peace Justice Orders- for shipping the body Franklin Arenberg, who acted as this evening over the highway to sheriff ex-officio. Miami were given and from there Arenberg arrived at the hotel it will be sent to the Davenports and made an examination of the. home at Norcross, Ga. body, heard the circumstances re-; The deceased is survived by his lated under which the act was widow, Mrs. Martile Davenport committed and decided that there }and mother, Mrs. Eppie Daven- was no necessity of summoning a ‘port. . ee ENGLAND'S RIPE FO t NAZIS CLAIM ENG : Hitler Revives Kaiser’s Plan Of Crashing Allied A f eee i rmies 4s eee { Since the downfall of Holland ‘on airdromes in eastern England. iGerman newspapers have been|With their advance guard well blaring forth about a Nazi inva-' established, troopships will sail jsion of the British Isles. When from Dutch and Belgian and how this will take place has and land—if 15 or 2U of them get been the cause of much debate. {trough the biockade—sv,U0u or A German blitzkrieg by air “ore men. ; a | ‘fhe whole plan of English in- ee ae Bugians depends | J asion hinges on the _ success ot two factors, Nazi military Nazi attempts to crush the Allied quarters assert. The first is the| armies on land in Belgium and outcome of the “Battle of Brus-!France. Should the ettorts fail, sels” and the second is whether!Germany will then have to fall Italy will enter the war, which! pack on prearranged positions in Hitler believes Mussolini will do: Flanders and mark time until the 'shortly—on the Germans’ side. | Ailies begin an offensive. If this However, the - Nazis’ war’ should materialize, a long, drawn strategy of surprises may carry jout war is expected. the conflict to the British Isles Schlicffen Plan ‘before the determination of those’ The Nazi invasion of the low- two factors. \lands follows the plan used by At any rate, the Kaiser Wilhelm II in World War coasts on English gov- INVASION; SURPRISE. ATTACK -AWAITED Chdddddkdid dud WAY IN LOUD CRASH a | | Rev. John C. Gekeler and Dr. } William R. Warren, members of , the Welfare Advisory Board, or- ganization sponsored by the County Commissioners, sponsors CIDP PDO O La aS of clinic activities in the city, ap-' .. peared before the City Council COUNCIL STRUGGLES TO MEET PAYROLL last evening to present the prob- ; lems of that group to the city | for whatever ensolvement could ! be effected i A detailed report of the clin- | ic’s work during 1939 was read | by Rev. Gekeler, giving income ; and expenditures. It was ex-| plained that chief working funds were made available when the | county sold the ferries two years | ago. j Both men pointed out the ne-} cessity of continuing the clinic,} Dr. Warren stating that Key; , West was unique in that no sup- | port was provided for a local hos- pital and that indigent sick were} cared for by physicians in priv-j{ ate practice. The Marine hos-! pital was highlv praised for its} co-operation with the clinic, in taking hospitalization cases at a set fee of $2.00 per day when| jit was a known fact that each j {patient costs the institution over {$4.00 per day. ! Dr. Gekeler explained that all] |cases reporting to the clinic were | icharged a 25c registration fee and :25e for each prescription filled. !He stated that funds amounting| {to $982.00 were available as of jthis date, and that the clinic} ‘could continue. under present; laverage ¢®nditions, for anathert In recognizing-need for city-| wide support, Councilman Ram- TO CHANGE LIQUOR LICENSE |sey answered the Advisory | Board’s plea for assistance by| CONTROL; OTHER MATTERS jasking, “Where is the money| HEARD AT COUNCIL MEET coming from?” He went on to/ say that it appeared entirely ad-| \visable for the citv to seriously | lconsider a system of direct taxa-| Councilman Ramsey reported jtion in order that not only the |to the City Council last night that jclinic, but regular police and fire|a ‘revised Ordinance No. 360 service could continue to be ren-;would be presented at the next be =e | regular meeting which would i ith that. the matter was re- [ferred to the Finance and Public |2*t © Correct present faliure of ‘ | Welfare Committees, both CITY TO REVISE to {the city to enforce violations of work in collaboration in bringing | liquor license provisions. ja solution to the problem. | The subject was brought up | Other members of the Advisory ‘by way of reporting on the Abe- ‘Board present were Carl Berval- : jardo Lopez’ license granted for peom Mice: apery Spotts- | the sale of liquors at his store on Simonton street, this in alleged jOpposition to wishes of residents jernment is rushing all prepara- tions to meet with this expected “total war”. Should the Ger- mans drop bombs and parachute troops over the Isles, it will be the first time in 900 years Eng- land has been invaded. British military strategists be- lieve Hitler will send huge bomb- ing fleets, possibly totalling 1,- 000 planes, over Britain from his Dutch bases. Main English points are only a few minutes’ flight from Nazi bases now that Hol- land has surrendered. Germany claims that the Eng- lish manpower is now practically all absorbed in battles in the low- lands and that the Isles are “un- defended”. This will allow, mili- tary quarters say, the landing of parach .te or sixth column troops WEDISH VESSEL Swedish Tanker Saturnus. which had been lying in the har- bor for the past three weeks and , Was consigned to the Porter Déck | {Co., came up to the dock yester- day afternoon for bunkers of fuel oil, Neither Captain Angus Berg of the Saturnus, nor the custom |house nor the Porter Dock Com- Pany would give any ihforma- jtion as to the vessel’s movements fas she sailed last evening. | Brady’s (Live) Poultry SECOND PERIOD it ' j1 but which he had to abandon | }for lack of support. This strategy ! PERMITS. $27 100 iis “known as the “Schlieffen | ? > }Plan”, which was originated by} — — Count Alfred _von Schlieffen,'LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS ‘Prussian strategist. j | The movement in World War) REPORTED TO BUILD- {I involved the invasion of France by a wide flanking thrust through ape era cees {Belgium and Holland. Nine- eee ‘tenths of the German forces} Permits for building and re- ‘were to be utilized. By march-|P@ils, as issued from the office ling through the lowlands it was|0f Building Inspector Harry M. ‘thought that more delay would Baker for the second period in |be avoided than if a direct attack |the month of May, total $27,100. ‘on the French frontier fortresses {Listed were: |Was carried out: The idea, also,| Frame one-story residence a | Was to force the French to fight |the corner of Waddell and Reyn in the open. Defense lines were , lds streets. Owner, A. M. Mor- jprovided in Lorraine in antici-|8@0; cost, $4,000. pation of a French invasion in| Frame two-story hotel at that area. North Beach and Petronia | However, the turn of events/Stfeets. Owner, George Smith; {seriously disrupted this plan in |©°St, $3,000. '1914. No part of the Austrian} Residence on South street. jarmy, German ally then, couldj)Owner, Thelma Strabel; cost, ibe spared to help the Kaiser's |$12,000. iforces, Italy balked at entering! Apartment at ‘the war on the Germans’ side,|Street. Owner, Raymond Curry; Belgians slowed up the march |©°St, $5,000. and Russia invaded Prussia soon- | General repairs at 405 South er than expected, thus necessitat- ;Street. Owner, Shelby C. ting the switching of German |SUre; cost, $1,000. to another front. General repairs at 801 Emma This time, Germany does not i Street. have to fight on two fronts. All|©°st. $1,000. : of its resources can be concen-| General repairs on residence on trated on the western bettie |Eiaater stvent Owner, Earl Ju- fiel is is a treme: Hien; 000. eee ee General repairs at 831 Thomas Hitler, who is more daring than | Street. the Kaiser, will use every avail- $100. able man and weapon to carry the plan through to success. If the Schlieffen idea is followed to| LOWE’S BATTERY | the letter, the battle in the Sedan | area 4 : _arez spot gy Sie tages jar {Best lity Reds, 2 to \are being carried on in Flanders.| 3° Ibs. > ——_ It is there that the fate of Hitler's Owner, Iola Williams; i jan the vicinity. Other matters taxen up by the council included the following | Insertion of an advertisement in The Citizen on May 18tn call- | ng attention to the June Ist jdeadline for payment of taxes. Consideration of letters writ- jten by Fire Chief Harry Baker to Mrs. Mary Sweeney, owner of the building at the northwest corner of Duval {streets, and to Vesey jagent for the building at the jnorthwest corner of Grinnell and {Fleming streets, in which re- quests for immediate razing were jmade in that both buildings were jconsidered fire traps. ; Complaint of inequable taxa- {tion on Carl Rom's property on Fleming street was referred to {Tax Assessor-Collector Sam Pin- ider for correction on the 1961 roles. | Franchise sought by four Key ; Westers to operate s bus system jin the city was denied on the jBy Come CHANGES STHL SEINC MADE AS DEADLINE TIME FOR FINAL PASS AGE APPROACHES We dead hh de a nance were such thet protecbe for future changrs were 2 hance With the Board of Appeas atuce Mike strut Both wove long enough Gcizved ant press for acvon. T £ Pree bo Propertues. fact that the tion to @ tast auc as Co meeyhete ee enor. <epes gp taat wows : react t the with artucke ten restrictzons owner: im the « spInson. ordinanc ty tron cam Presadent Suhr Zonmg B (Contunued ¢ LATE NEWS BULLETINS (By Aneociaeed Prem: WASHINGTON President Herbert Hoower ez caller at the capite!l tudes | warned that scentific & of the new large-scale Ged program woult te necessary avoid waste The 196] appre Mgtons would most ket; 2 basis of $255.09 per capite fr the nation. he stated and poms out the fearful tex burden pected to be borne by future g-= * erations tin Dies Representatrre men of the Un-Am-tikes Ways committer, today made ap ei quent pice to the Bouse to ep out all Sth colurm actretues wxth-