The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 3, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire rvice For 69 Yedrs Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 133. PRICE FIVE CENTS * WHAT AMERICA Is Ct Preparedness Speeded * Ox DOING IN THIS WAR , ; COL. PENDLETON | M’MULLEN’S POST Flights Appeared (By Associated Press) ‘NATIONAL DEFENSE Satisfaction On Murphy sales From. 1 1. Board ASSOCIATION TO MEET NEXT MONDAY AT TALAHASSEE; SAWYER MAKES STATEMENT Members of the County Clerk’s Association of Florida have been called to a meeting in Talla- hassee to start next Monday. June 10th, at which important subjects will be discussed in con- nection with the Internal Im- Provement Board’s handling of the Murphy land sales, as cer- tified by the Trustees as being State owned. Due and to much dissatisfaction misunderstandings, the clerks asked for a meeting with the Board on May 9th, but no opportunity has been given them until the date mentioned, at which time a joint meeting will beheld in effort to straighten vut all existing differences. Bidders at auction sales held in this and all other counties in the state, except where they were proved to be. former own- ers or lien holders of the parcels sold, have not received their deeds or acceptance of bids from the L L Board. In Monroe Coun- ty, this affects at least 90 per cent of the sales, according to Ross C. Sawyer, clerk. Inquiry to date has brought little re- sponse from Tallahassee—though increased pressure from all points, has finally brought con- sent to hold the meeting next week. Previous meetings between the board and clerks, the base bid agreement of 25 per cent was agreed upon. Almost immediate- ly, however, following agreement, the clerks began receive bids with rejection no- tices on them. Inquiry developed that the Trustees were desirous of receiving a 60 per cent base bid guarantee on iands not owned by former owners. This was con- trariwise to original agreemen as stated, and, as a consequence, much confusion has_ resulted, with the clerks “on the spot” in that the public deals exclusively with them. Mr. Sawyer stated today that he would attend the Tallahassee meeting and will insist that the L L Board live up to its instruc- tions and accept all bids re- ceived for the past three months except where owners have ap- peared. In such cases, he has already requested that the board reject the bids. “I do not understand how the L L. Board can justify themselves in their present stand”, stated Mr. Sawyer, “after having given positive instructions in regard to handling their sales. ~These in- structions have been carried out to the letter. After everything was completed, the board backed up on its position and now states that we are not to do what they originally stated. There is no semblance of an excuse for the board not carrying out their agreement and I feel that if it wants to change the basis of sales, the new basis should not (Continued on Page Four) to that |") Convention Corporation ‘Induets: Officers Tonight MACHINISTS HERE FOR STATION SHOPS TEN MEN ARRIVE TO WORK UNDER LIEUT. W. J. MURPHY Preparations are forward fer further West. station the naval station in Key the to be opened on a full-time All of the shops in are industrial basis as announced on May 21. Lieutenant W. J. Murphy, con- struction U.S.N., of the planning Charleston, two corps, office here in for the arrival of machin- of work- men to place the station on an industrial basis. has been weeks awaiting ists and other classes Yesterday 10 of the machinists and others arrived over the high- way from Charleston navy yard and Pensacola and reported for duty this morning: They are E. P. Poe, leading machinist; Claude E. Davis, John K. Austin Frank H. Rodenison and George Reid, machinists; Arthur V. Neb- lett and Leonard J. Blackwell, shipfitters; James M._ Birming- shipwright; Thomas Marks, pipefitter, and Julius H. S . welder. Seymour was here for » time when the finger piers being constructed in I station and knows residents in the city. ham. Jr., many BICYCLE THIEVES IN COUNTY JAIL Leo Parker and Francisco Sota were arrested last week and plac- ed in the county jail, charged WM. V. LITTLE NAMED AS PRESIDENT OF GROUP; BY-LAWS TO BE PRESENTED Announcement was made Saturday of the officers who have been selected to head th now going Key West Convention Corpora-' opening Of tion by members of Arthur Saw- | yer Post 28, American Legion. At a meeting tonight at Legion headquarters, the following will be inducted into office as the corporation’s official officers: William -V. Little, president; Commander Harold Russell, first vice-president; Allan B. Cleare, second vice-president and attor- ney and honorary second presidents, ; Everett Russell, Mrs. Fred Knapp, \Mayor Willard Albury, Mrs. Joseph Lopez, Joe Allen, Gerald Saunders and Ramon Delgado Al Mills will be appointed general manager and chairman of |the Board of Directors of the group. Directors will consist of members of the City Council and vice- " County Commission and a selec- tion of 35 leading businessmen in the city. Tonight's meeting will also feature a reading of the cor- |poration’s by-laws. Time of the meeting is 8:00 o'clock. Following induction into office, the officers will clear the decks © for preliminary moves to handle no partment convention in this city jnext April. All matters pertain- ing to that event will be handled by the officers, it was stated. BRITISH FREIGHTER BROUGHT TO PORT Melvin E. Russell,! GUARD WILL REPORT HERE ABOUT JULY 16 Lieut. Col. J. D. MacMullen, jcommander of the harbor de- ;fenses here, today informed The ;Citizen concerning his successor jwho will take over after he leaves for his new post as in- structor of Coast Artillery of the National Guard of New York. Col. Louis L. Pendleton, pres- ent senior instructor of Coast Artillery of the New York Na- tional Guard, will be- the new commandant at Key West bar- racks, the transfers, therefor, be- in the nature of a “swap” Col. Pendleton received his full colonel’s commission in 1936. He is a native of Tennessee, grad- uating from Cumberland Unijver- sity and U. S, Military Academy in 1908. He also graduated from the Advanced Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe and from the Commander’s and General Staff school at Fort Leaven- worth, and received temporary advanced ratings during the World War. He has been on his present duty for the past five ‘years. Col. Pendleton is expected to arrive in Key West on or about July 16th. s ‘FDR URGES CUT IN FEDERAL SALARIES TEN PERCENT SUGGESTED; AFFECTS HIGHER- BRACKET (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3.— President Roosevelt today . sug- gested that a general ten percent salary reduction by the Congress to tal fect on all higher-bracket aries, including senators representativ: The savings effected, he stat- ed, would be totalled and pass on to the credit of the national defense program. Administrator Carmod: of | WPA and PWA, today was con- | sidering plans, advanced by the administration, to turn all relief labor to the defense program. |This would mean that all proj- ects now under _ construction throughout the nation that had connection with defense sal- jily, while new projects in line with the army and navy expan- sion program would be made up and all labor assigned to the new work. NORMAN THOMAS ASSAILS PROGRAM ROSTON, June 3.—Norman Thomas, candidate of the Socialist iParty for the presidency, today with the theft of bicycles, parts ‘The British freighter Harpoon /@Ssailed the National Defense of which they had on a truck and arrived in port Saturday evening Progtam in a speech here. were offering for sale two de-' in tow of the Coast Guard Cutter’ Thomas stated that’ the tached wheels, which are now in Pandora; which was sent te its §™4M was too “hysterical”. the pro- His the sheriff's keeping at the coun- assistance when trouble with the Patty would suggest a defense ty courthouse. The attention of Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite and Offi- pumps developed off Sombrero Key Light. Charles Lowe, agent for Lloyd’s that would undertake jdefense of the coastlines only, he jsaid, and that the cost for such a cer Franklin Arenberg was call- in Key West to whom the vessel |PFostam would come from in- ed to their actions and they after the men and made the ture and placed them in the ty jail. They will be given pre- liminary hearing this afternoon before Peace Justice Enrique Es- quinaldo, Jr. Notice! went coun- Notice! is assigned, said this morning that jto arrive today from Miami to make an inspection of thé vessel. Natural Assumption Se (By Associated Preas) AKRON, 0. June 3—Joe creased income taxes afAd taxa- cap-'an engineer of the pany was tion of armament profits only, } |GREAT. BIG HOBBY FROM | “LITTLE ELEPHANT GROWS (By Associated Press) CORYDON, Ind—Dr. William W. Christley, Corydon dentist, found a tiny china elephant in ; The National Defense Commis- ;Sion of the United States, named |by President Roosevelt, will con- centrate all its efforts on speed- ing up the nation’s preparedness program for the present. Al- though the commission has «an- other task that it may be called on to perform, only events of the future will determine the extent of the second part of its work. The commission will exercise its power over industry and la- bor without any strings, it ap- pears. The President has given the members general ideas to follow but will leave the actual performance of those plans up to the body. “Even the Repubicans will be surprised at the leeway the President is giving these men to whom he hag a great de- gree of personal confidence”, a Washington official stated. “All he wants is results”. The purpose of the group, as “they appear now, are: Bring es- sential industries under co-ordin- ated control; speed up their out- put; distribute orders for supplies among concerns best fitted to mec{ them expeditiously; prevent waste, graft, duplication and de- Jay; get speed and economy , through mass action. i}: Second job of the commission. reomposed of experts in indu try, labor and government, will be to place American economy into the picture after the war. if it is over quick. Should the con- flict drag on, the members will be faced with a crisis in agricul- jture, which will involve the touchy problem of price-fixing and feeding Europe’s war-torn +masses. INTERNAL DEFENSE Martin Dies, Texas Democrat and chairman of the Dies Un- American Committee, has urged President Roosevelt to form a Council of Internal Defense. The President has taken the sugges- tion under consideration The public will have a chance to help the country in this time of national preparedness if the jcouncil is formed. Americans would be called upon to watch and pass on to the council infor- mation concerning fifth column activities in the United States. }RAILROADS READY “We're ready to go to tight now”, said M. J. Gormley, executive asssitant of the Asso- ciation of American Railroads, in connection with his industry's bat} Red Cross NeGds In Europe * ALL CHAPTERS URGED TO RAISE QUOTAS AND CONTINUE SUBSCRIP- TION DRIVES Miss Grace Phillips, of the Key West Red Cross chap- ter, is in receipt of advices from |National headquarters in Wash- ington requesting that original ‘quotas assigned to all chapters be duplicated in a continuation ‘of the drive to aid in war relief work abroad. In two appeals, the national headquarters calls on all citizens of the United States to assist in work. The first appeal came by letter from Mabel T. Boardman, national secretary, who has been director of the Volunteer Service of the organization since the World War. Norman Davis, national chairman, wired all chapters to- this vitally-needed day as follows: “At the international confer- ence of all Red Cross societies of the world, held two years ago, a unanimous appeal was made to all nations to enter into agree- ments prohibiting the bombing of open towns and cities or at least to establish zones of im- munity where civilians could eek sanctuary. | “This appeal has heeded. In fact*’ established agreements against warfare on civilians are not even being re- spected. In all the experience of not been part in the national defense pro~ the Red’ Cross it has never been the American Legion State “de-|would be termMmated temporar-|8T@™- “The railroads are al-'faced with such a heartbreaking {ways in a state of national de- fense. They must be or they could not handle the fluctuations in the commercial traffic that they have from season to season and from year to year”. The railroads, Gormley added. are prepared to meet the expect- ed increase in transportation re- sulting from the defense program (Continued on Page Four) NEW HOSPITAL AT PORT ST. JOE CONSTRUCTION TO START MIDDLE OF’ JULY ON $50,000 STRUCTURE PORT ST. JOE, June 3 (FNS). —Contruction work on Port St. Jge’s new municipal hospital is scheduled to start July 15. The hospital will contain 50 rooms and an isolation ward for The Delmonico Restaurant Owens heard the judge impose a the debris of the 1937 Ohio River communicable diseases. It will will be closed for about 1 month 30-day sentence for non-support flood. He kept it. made. AQUILINO LOPEZ. , june3-1t Proprietor. but missed hearing the word “suspended”. So—Jailer Fred Mayer had a hard time con- vincing Owens that there wasn’t a cell awaiting him. Since then, he has collected more than 700 toy elephants, big and little. in every kind of mate- ‘vial from ivory to sponge. He be built of brick tile with fire- proof shingles and asphalt tile $50,000, and it? will be one of the ‘northwest Florida. problem as that of caring for im- nocent women, children and aged, against whom merciless and ruthless war is being waged. For the sake of humanity, we must do everything possible to relieve suffering and maintain (Continued On Page Four) INDICTED TODAY FILM HEAD CHARGED WITH INCOME TAX EVASION AND FRAUD (Bs Avaociated Press) LOS ANGELES, June 3— Joseph M. Schenck, head of 20th Century-Fox Film Company, to- day -was indicted in Federal Court here on charges of income tax evasion and tax frauds, cluding misinformation given to federal investigators. If the indictments hold and in- Schenck is sentenced on all/tions, manufacturers, consumers! counts, he is liable for prison ‘ fines of $160,000. secretary | ALLIES NOT AFRAID OF ITALY’S ENTRY MUSSOLINI WILL ADDRESS GRAND COUNCIL TO- MORROW (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 3.—British and French observers here were con- fident that they could cope with ,Italy’s expected entry into. the war on the side of the Nazis, an- nouncement of which was ex- pected at any time. Mussolini will address a mect ing of Italy’s grand council to- morrow in Rome, and many think that the declaration will be made at that time. Word came from Rome today that Mussolini had postponed the Rome World's Fair which was to have been held this summer. British experts declared that Italy would prove a “thorn in the Allies’ side” during initial en- gagements upon entry into the war, but that shortage of re- serves would wear her out to the point where, in possibly two or three months, the nation would be forced to fall back to defense of the country entirely It is conceded that Italy's planes would help Hitler ma- terially, though the original con- jecture that Mussolini would send many of the known 3,000 planes in first. or second-class condition, to aid Hitler in campaign against England, was abridged to make it appear that the air-force would be used in south-France campaigns almost entirely, with possible forays into i British-controlied African coun- tries, including Egypt, and the Suez canal. SEC. WALLACE FAVORS CHAINS SAYS MARKETING METHODS AID FARMERS WITH ECO- NOMICAL MEASURES WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3 (FNS).—Henry Wallace, U.S. sec- retary of agriculture, told the {congressional committee holding }hearings on the Patman Chain Store Bill that studies have in- dicated “the food chains have been able to introduce a number of economies into the marketing system” and that “greater effi- ciency and lower costs in the jmarketing of farm products are tof great importance to the farm- er and the consuming public” In the current hearings on his bill, Congressman Patman has ‘stood practically alone in his at- tempt to eliminate the chain stores from the American scene {Labor groups, farm organize- in terms’ totalling 167 years and representatives to oppose the ‘Patman Bill ~ Over Capital At Noon EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT OF DESTRUCTION SENT BY A. P. CORRESPOND- ENT ON SCENE By JOHN LLOYD AP War Correspondent PARIS. June 5—Germ bembed Peris today. wounding én uncounted number of persons and wrecking buildings and set ting great firec. One bomb fell on one particu larly important building but censorship benned transmission cf the name or location. First official bulletin said “several bomps fell im interior of the i ih til PARIS, June iservers re preted that there ax flaghts of German planes numtermg ~> proximately 155 bombers (Continuet on Page Four) OVER $759.00 were the goud prices buyers presest and those fore whom they were bought Tote