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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West —_—<——_ _._._._' VOLUME LXI. No. 130. Che Key eat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE: U. S08. AQ) Division Into Flanders FRENCH TROOPS BREAK THROUGH TRAP IN ONE SECTOR; NAZIS USE 1,000 PLANES (By Associated Press) LONDON,-May 30.—Forty di-! visions of the German army, comprising over 500,000 men. are today hammering at the desperate Allied lines in Flan- ders and the climax of “the world’s greatest batile” Rected to com> within the next thirty-six hours. Wave after wave of Nazis are being hurled into the fray by’ the German high command in a su- preme effort to end thia phase of the war and turn attention else- where. There is a lack of regard for the amount of lives lost in the assaults. In connection with the land operations, from. 600 to 1,000 German planes are raining bombs over the whole’ sector, in- flicting unprecedented casualties and damage to cities and coun- tryside. Allied officia today, however, that one bright feature of the desperate situation had developed when a detach- ment of French troops succeeded in breaking through the lines of the Nazi attackers and thereby had forced a halt along a_ five- mile front—at least for the time being. British planes were active and English sources claimed that during the past three days a total of 107 German planes had been shot down. German high command today warned that the present conflict was just “a dress rehearsal” for the coming invasion of England. Independent observers, however, believe that the next drive, if the present maneuvers are successful for the Nazis, will be towards Paris. General Weygand, commander- in-chief of the Allied armies, de- clared today that he was _ re- luctant to, send men to the res- cue of entrapped French and British soldiers in the triangle sector of Belgium. . Present re- quirements along the Maginot (Continued On Page Four) DEFENSE PROGRAM ANTE RAISED AGAIN ROOSEVELT TO ASK FOR ANOTHER BILLION DOL- LARS TOMORROW (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 30. — President Roosevelt will send a special message to Congress to- morrow calling for an additional appropriation of $1,400,000,000, bringing the current list of de- fense preparation expenditures sought up over the* four billion dollar mark. erst The present appropriation _ is. entirely supplementary to orig- inal sums asked for and will be used chiefly for strengthening of the army air forces and for train- ing of 1,000,000 men for pilot and mechanic positions. The National Civilian Defense Council met for 85 minutes to- day in the White House with all branches of the service and all but three cabinet. members pres- ent. First to emerge from the conference was Secretary. of * Agriculture Wallace who President called a press confer- ence immediately following the council discussions, is ex- early: *. TOOTH IOTIs ELLEN DiNEGRO NOW . BACK WITH PARENTS Ellen DiNegro, who left home a week ago, has return- ed to Key West, it was an- nounced by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul DiNegro, this morning. She arrived on the last bus last night with her father, coming from Ft. Laud- erdale. Contrary to rerorts, Ellen hitch-hiked a ride with a stranger driving north on the day she disappeared last week, and stayed with a lady-friend in Ft. Lauderdale until she learned that her Parents were worried about her. *| ' Ellen went to the police headquarters in Ft. Lauder- dale and asked that her par- ents be notitied of her where- ebouts. Accordingly, Mr. DiNegre made the trio and accompanied his daughter home last night, Interview- ed today, Miss Ellen stated that she “was Glad fo be home”. Z . TSI SIE SSS Seroder Pl (Special to JACKSONVILLE, May 30— Response to the invitation of the Professional and Service sion of the Work Projects Ad- ministration for the citizens of Florida to see for themselves why its operation “Pays the Com- munity” has recorded the largest cooperative statewide “party” held in Florida in several years, with a preliminary attendance count of approximately 775,000 persons, according to State WPA Headquarters here. “he interest manifested dur- ing the past week by the citizens of Florida in the detailed opera- tion of the Professional and Serv- ice Division of the WPA has been most gratifying”, it was stated by State Administraor Schroder. “The ‘This Work Pays Your Community Week’ program proved a revelation to many, if )reports and comments reaching me can be used as a gauge for popular opinion. “The effort was a decided suc- cess and I Wish to express my sin- cere thanks to the state, county, and municipal authorities, as well as representatives of spon- soring and co-sponsoring organ- izations and the general public for the splendid attendance at the statewide dinner party on Mon-i day, May 20, and visitors to proj- ect sites.during the entire week.” Mrs...,/Rolla A. Southworth, Florida Direetor of the Profes- sional. and “Service Division of WPA,:who 'was present at the P. & S. dinner in Key West, Monday, May 20, stated night; “I am well pleased with the response to our efforts to show the citizens of the state just what the work of the P. & S. Division embraces and the high standards maintained in all parts ‘of our program.” Reports from all sections of the stated state indicate that Florida citi-! that “we are organized”. The zens are alert to keeping them-} selves posted as to the effective work being cafried on by the | Work Projects Administration in | : cased With Response To Open House Divi-; Roy! on | last | 'BYRD’S ANTARCTIC! PORT LAST NIGHT BARKENTINE BAER j CHARGES FREIGHT AND TAKES ON OIL; apmanat | LEFT SHIP AT VALPARAISO | The auxiliary-barkentine Baer, ! ship which carried Admiral : ‘Richard Byrd to the Antarctic |Pole, arrived in the harbor last| evening at 5 o’clock and came up; to a berth at Pier B at. the naval} Station, to discharge freight for | ; shipment north and to take on fuel oil. ! On the vessel are seven officers | and 33 men in command of Lieut. ;Comdr. R. H. Cruzen, U. S. N.} |The Baer has been in the service | ‘of the United States Coast Guard | {for many years. { | The ship left Boston Novem-' ; ber 22 on the voyage to the south tpole regions and made several stops, one at Little America, where a base was_ established. | From there the admiral and! Party made trips to the interior | using a twin motored Bailly-| Brow plane, which is now on the’ ship, being carried back to Phila- delphia. On the voyage from the Pole | the vessel, when off the ccast of Cape Horn, hoisted sail and made the voyage around the! Cape under sail, being one of the | few sailing vessels which has; made that voyage in many years. } Coming up the coast of South! {America the Baer made port at’ Valparaiso where Admiral Byrd left the ship and secured passage | on a steamer sailing for New, York, shortening the trip back} home. .The Baer then continued, ; make the passage through the! Panama Canal, and right on toj Key West. i Members of the vessel’s_per-/ sonnel were given liberty yester-} { day evening and will be ashore | again tonight. The Baer is sched- ; uled to leave 5 o'clock tomorrow | morning for her destination ‘The Citizen) its wide and comprehensive pro- gram, ‘ Local Professional and Service | division heads reported consider- able interest during open-house week and many _ residents paid visits to the various projects. Persons interviewed stated jthat of all projegts. yisited, the School Lunch Project, compris- | ing four units, one-each at Harris School, Division.,.Street. School, | Douglass School and San Carlos ! School, proved of ‘most interest. This project, the only one in the! city that has community spon-! sorship serves an average of 13,- 000 lunches monthly, approxi- mately 11,000 of them free to} jchildren who could not afford to; pay. I fi | {ONE OTHER LICENSE CASE. i HEARD AT CRIMINAL COURT SESSION At a special session of Crim- jinal Court heid this morning with Judge William V. Albury Presiding and. all oificers. pres-{ ent, the case of George Mills White, charged with operating a car without the proper license, was brought up for trial. 1 Mr. White explained that the car in which he was riding at the The case of Curry Higgs, who/ was charged with having an im-; Proper license, was also for trial The defendant pose 2 that he had secured the necessary was deferred. (Places. | 7 ‘dition for the SPONGES SELL = ax —_. FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940 30,902 American War Dead Lie In Flanders Geméteties es KEY WEST, is ‘FABRICATION WORK NOW PROGRESSES: EXPECT COM. NEAR U.S. : By JOHN GROVER, AP Feature Service Writer i WASHINGTON, May 30.—Eu-/sisted by a corps of native labor-| PLETION BY, JUNE 16 DEAD- | rope’s war is within gun-soundjers. Thousands of Americans, | LINE of American soil—those United} many of them relatives of the; States cemeteries in France and |men buried there, have come to! is; Saag j Flanders where rest 30,902 Amer-|the cemeteries each year—but the} Steel for construction of the ican war dead. ; Wer will prevent that in 1940. immense seaplane hangar at the} Already bombs have dropped} ‘The American Battle Monu- Trumbo airbase arrived here near these silent American out-|ments commission is im charge of jthis week aboard three barges! Posts. One. the Meuse-Argonne maintaining the cemeteries. There Heased by the Steel Construction cemetery, has been reported/has been no fear expressed offi- !Company of Birmingham, Ala. | struck by bombs. leially that the cemeteries are in} Lieut. S. K.- Wilson, assistant | Solemn Memorial Day services danger. Indeed, there has been to Lieut-Comdr. J. T. Brady,! in the American cemeteries a, effort to minimize the! public works officer at the Nav- SRA DAA AOA AE All MILITARY UNITS IN year will be punctuated by the! at. i Stati ; long unfamiliar, but too well-re-|_ But-war recks litle of senti-{ nce ee now get untermer SEBASTIAN CABRERA LINE OF MARCH: Ex. membered, thunder of great guns |ment and less uty. The Ger-. rapidly on erection of the hangar .. erie on : ACADEMY GRADUATE =RCISES AT BaYview in the distance. }man invasion of France and Be Six of the eight American!gium and its:attendant threat toistructure would be completed PARK within the time limit’ that calls cemeteries in Frante are on bat- the perpetual quiet of the Amer- i tlefields where Yankee troupe jFigo sraveyards has brought the::for a June 16 deadline. | rolled back the Hindenburg line| war home, as nothing else, to the; ‘The hangar work is separate) * in the assaults of June te Octo-| thousands of American families ,from the Ivy H. Smith Company | ber, 1918. Those six lie square | whose sons .and brothers lie‘ contract which covers all other. athwart the line of battle follow-ithére. _ construction at the new. airbase. | ed in western Europe since Cae-}- |Planders Near Battle Zone. {| work will be concentrated dus! sar’s time. Here are the American ceme- ‘ing the next few days on fabrica-! Ungrudged millions have been |teries in Europe: ition of the steelwork into frames | spent—$5,000,000 in all—by the! Flanders Field—most endan-jand girders. Then hoisting der- | U. S. government to assure per-igered by the new war—lies be- iricks will start operations and: Petual beauty to these quiet tween Brussels and Ypres in the jthe hangar will rise. : | cities of the dead. White marble ‘heart of Belgium at Waereghem; | Dimensions of the hangar will’ crosses—six-pointed stars of Da-/ 368: American dead lie here. |be 372 feet long, 250 feet wide! vid for the Jewish dead—bloom! St. Mihiel—4,152 American sol-' and 50 feet high. Total cost of! in ordered rows on the broad 'diérs rest here—lics 26 miles from {the contract is $96,000. Bases acres. . ‘te fen id of Nancy, recently | for the girders and all foundation . Guarding each American ceme- ; bombed. completed ‘ tery is-a lofty-vaulted chapel.’ Suresnes—lies on the Fe PE ee bes ee Bart snes lies rts |Smith Company. The chapels, all in the classic of Paris, five miles from the city | f i | } it tout uy CANVASSING BOARD MEETS TOMORROW TO CHECK VOTE OF TUES. DAYS RUN-OFF SEC. | TION i architectural tradition. were built ‘center; 1,541’ Americans who died for the ages—but one bomb of wounds in base hospitals are could demolish any of them. De-: buried here. i signs were chosen only after in- Meuse-Argonne—18 miles from ternational competition. They . Verdun, is still more than 100 ; compare favorably with the;miles from the battle line. The ; greatest memorial architecture jlargest U. S. foreign cemetery, it! anywhere. : is the last_ haven of 14,240 Amer-| France Observes Memorial Day ‘ican soldiers. | The years of peace since 1918, Oise-Aisne — containing 6,012| lave been kind to these . quiet American graves, lies 14 miles | The French peasantry {from: Chateau” Thierry outside | has adopted the American custom ‘the present battle zone. of Memorial Day. The nearest Aisne-Marne—2,288 Americans, Sunday to May 30 is regularly | mostly those who, fell at Belleau } e 5 celebrated by the villagers who wood, are buried here. This, ao oe, eA aoa Sep es remember the American khaki- cemetery, too, is outside the PYES- | second primary election of Tues- clads of 1918. ent battle zone. ld: May 28. An American superintendent; Somme—endangered age eo is in charge of each cemetery, as-! F dedhindede ded h Monroe county canvassing board will meet tomorrow after- Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk. which is stationed at St also. by! ‘The meeting. will be held in a of ing and came up to Pier B ~---—-- jmond R. Lord and will be com- j canvassed the vote in the first] The vessel was foreed te SECRETARY TO ADDITION FINISHED; #..‘:"sScem Gt witnesses FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THIS. MARCH 11; FINAL INSPEC. | - 12> gt age jof the dispensary addition to the | 21st annual Convention of Flor- : i Tampa, May 26 to 29. Secretary }it was announced by M. E. Ben- ported an interesting meet. jpany of Miami. t naval station for a supply iposed of the same members who jpoeaars, Judge Lord, Chairman alongside the Barkentine CONVENTION WORKERS PRAISED <0" "SS" "**=*" == Shee Se esate i WEEK AT TAMPA TERRACE TION MADE BY company's | Author Later Became Confederate Army General ee eee eee Key West Chamber of Com-|- Contraet for the construction | —————— imain dispensary H ida Commercial Secretaries held |" paar ued, S. C. Singleton returned © this |nett, construction foreman for the ! Most events on the convention | Work was started on March 11 . { burg, arrived in port (Continued-On'Page Four) | the affice of Cowmly Judge Ray. , i oil, C. OF C. SENT NAVAL DISPENSARY jof the County Commission Carl which was lying at the dock 21ST- ANNUAL MEET HELD PRELIMINARIES BEGAN on| LETTER FROM HOTEL | SUPERINTENDENT . merce .was represented at the} at the Tampa Terrace Hotel, |5t@tion was completed yi yds morning from the meet and Te- Southeastern Construction Com- program were of serious nature, | My oes Mother: ? | baie a / ou must excuse me from writing a letter, as ve little to tell you. We had a very pleasant but long passage to Indian & Swemmumg mern tecge appr: | Key. We saw several villages on the coast before we reached In- @l: Charles Sanches 58 dian Key, but they were all deserted. The people at Indian Key development and wes are very much frightened, under arms and expecting an attack daily bedges, There was a family by the go Toop Si said. Then, a huge cake wa: i z of Cooley just below the light . als went to celebrating the 2ist birthday of| "#8 completed last evening and house at Cape Florida, murdered There were also Bananas, Ps the organization. Past presidents |tea@dy for the final inspection | by the Indians. And it was very present included L. M. Dickie,| within the allotted time allowed singular, their mother was al-; first president, Earl Thatcher, | by the Navy Department. most an Indian herself and the Arthur Snell, August Burghard, | The building is very roomy children were named after In- Karl Lehman, H. L. Smith, James 4, ;dians and could speak Indian T. Daniels, Fred J. Lee and M, {2nd extremely comfortable with i M. Deaderick. {all that is necessary for comfort The cities represented at the |°f Patients. It contains, beside Convention were, Arcadia, by the offices for the doctor-in- Miss Hazel Williams; Avon Park, Charge and his assistants, ‘six (Continue¢ on Page Four) (Frivate rooms, laboratory, X-tay j and operating rooms and an ad-| the local secretary reported, “not |@nd despite some delays caused until the last night of the meet’ by the non-arrival of material on did entertainment-take a prom-'time, the work had progressed to inent place on the program”, he | such an extent that the structure his famliy at home, as they ex-|West we also passed some pected no danger from the \ized villages, but they dians. and at! Hh i i “RS il a f i RF fil Ul | ' f i i H H i i f - | On the west side of NET i=: is a wide porch, Tot her. ii iscreened with wire of fine mesh,|took a which prevents the entrance of |few days and | I as H & li K i I | Ri 44 Fl f {! | way. were very | Mr. Bennet, who, several days|their safety. ke gt 8 ; very that was apprehended | workmen at his command in y, time i } i | | i f : t ; ge iH j The largest sale was of a lot of 40 bunches of wool, which brought a price of $146.60; one lot of 14 bunches brought $58, other lot of 14 bunches sold $47.10 and 10 bunches went $36.45. a eb Hi i i iff ceedingly pleased work. He for his Faas : i i : i | | f ' i