The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXI. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1940 TO STUDY’ STATE | ADMINISTRATION | taims Americas Are Honeycombed oes With Fifth Columns S e. ro asseusce ow ratamas. FOR’ ALLIES AND INTERNMENT OF SPIES gS Paris Suburbs Handling for many years busi-! “For thirty years I have travel-} * jness in this hemisphere for the ed in my business from country | TALLAHASSEE, Fila. June}Holland-South American Trading 'to country, and I have found! FOOD SUPPLIES COM- SSS SaaS OSS SE MANDEERED FOR ALLIES CHEERED BY 12 (FNS)—Two hundred boys'Company, Joseph Harpman, a’ everywhere that the fullest staff-| cad ! will gather in Tallahassee June’ native of Rotterdam now living ‘ed consulates have always been NS) Continuing its program of THREATENED SIEGEs:: NEWS FROM AMERICA ALLIES IN CONFERENCE: + ease (By Associated Press) 22 to learn something about state ‘here, asserts that in his belief; those of Germany. In 1931 when keeping Florida -—% the lead in the j government. The event, termed |there are not less than 500,000 there was a republic in Germany, field of education for Demo-| LONDON, June 12.—De- spite the discouraging news “Boys’ State”, is sponsored by jpotential fifth columnists in the I traveled throughout the coun-(cracy, the Florida Congress on | | y that issues forth from the the American Legion and Aux-!United States who have become try by plane. I landed in all of Democracy announced a great | —_____________» Paris area, Allied high com- (CRUSADE EVENTS| | JUNE 14 AND END JULY «:| TO JOIN JACKSONVILLE, June 12—! iliary, the clergy, civic, fraternal |so through this sort of intimida-'the largest cities, in superb ait-ithree weeks’ crusade which will. and educatiortal organizations | tion- idromes fifty times too big for the '.,. carried out statewide June 14, DRPAWEG™ ALL DEEDS PREPARED Boys selected by these groups| “I have known of Germansitraffic they had; and each air-| PROTESTS WANTON FOR TRANSMISSION TO i from all sections of the state are! who were loyal citizens. of the |drome was heavily subsidized by |F!2é Day), through July 4, (In- being sent to the capital, where,|United States and of South/the government. ;dependence Day). TALLAHASSEE: IW - STRUCTIONS ON FILE |United States a 3 ee | Following a conference held/,, *” for a week, they will be given an/ American ‘countries where busi-| ~%* South American Menace | _ Bee Offers . opportunity to watch the func- | ness has taken me for many; ‘“In Holland, Germans who"for here over the week-end, which} 2 Reward Of $109 (By Axnociated Press) LONDON, June 12.—A ring of planes, tanks jyears, who have been interview-j20 years have been naturalized tantra 2 Baerga peat KEY WEST BOYS TO ATTEND ‘ed by German agents. When they citizens of Holland, helped the sd a Paves: plod or KILLING SSS : {said they were not interested in!Nazis destroy the nation. I saw eae ieee DER” Seema. — Xero aerial ‘others, it was announced that a‘=—=—= helping Germany, mention was;that coming when I was _ there tend “Boys’ State” were is) 'made of relatives in Berlin orjthree years ago. and infantry slowly encircling Paris today ac-: cording hourly to dispatches arriving! the beleagured | French high command, as the from Germans push forward their | three-bladed attack on the French | capital city. mands expressed themselves as being mightily pleased with the declarations of as- sistance made by President Roosevelt this week. The message of help, which pleces the United States in the status of a non-belliger- ent, comin+ when it did has ¢eone much to bolster the morale of the English people, who see nothing encouraging named last weekend. _ They are Robert Smith. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, and Hastings Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Adams. Both were promoted to the senior class of the Key West High School. Robert was selected by Ar- thur Sawyer Post, No. 28, American Legion. and Hast- isome other German place. | “As the interview They were just | waiting for the chance. The war continued, !babies we adopted became our and pressure was brought to 'deadly enemies. ‘bear with dire threats, the Amer-| “In South America most cf the jicanized citizens reluctantly said jofficers are German-trained and their relatives. told lie after lie, and soon they would vield in order to save jin certain sections police com- Then thi jison-;missioners are German-trained. ‘ ingiat their qinds agabet ane ice meetin people attach {M8 about the national defense; Burden, president of Marine Stu- country would begin. They would | tremendous prestige to a uniform — = |be visited constantly, would be!exactly as in Germany. many! “The slaughter of American jdinner would be held in Miami j jtomorrow evening at jheads of all civic, which |__Contending that fraternal and | ‘political groups would gather to | MARINELAND. June 12 (FNS) the wanton destruction of green turtles along ‘plan the statewide crusade for |the Florida coast, if not stopped stimulating the patriotic spirit of | will bring about the extermina- jour people and start them think-jtion of the species, W. Douglas Executive Vice President 'the Florida Congress on Demo-{With the State Department of Conservation and offered of, jdios, entered a vigorous protest a re C. Sewyer today wired F.C DD lott of the Board asking wher be may expect the return cf the | ings was named by the Ro- | aa tery Club. three * ‘ ty for the sales held ir “ebrusry March and April Clerk Sawyer stated im wire that all deeds for the prop erties bid for had been prepared and that he was anxious te close out the sales, depending upon advice ag to rejection or accept ance received Complete instructions are on file at clerk's office im te Government headquarters in France, now set up in a yet un- named city many miles removed from Paris, is keeping in close i ALLIES PLOTTING i HEROIC MEASURE aod {By Associated Press) LONDON, June 12.—Late dispatches today stated that the Allied high commands were assembled today “some- where in France’. plotting heroie measures in the de- fense gesture to be made against the oncoming Nazi hordes outside Paris. Accurate descriptions of the immense battle taking place indicated that it was too early to make any admis- sions as yet. French tank di- visions were reported to be in heavy counterattack maneuvers against the Nazi spearheads endangering the French capital. taoms is as issued by f f le 1s Al | PRR RE 8 § i i i i touch with its British allies. Many main lines of communica- rs i i d | yet in i HH rth : [: rf : ———— rt: By wasn oe > opinion of the Supreme hoidimg that Chapter 18235 aos not extinguish mumps! b= the Trustees are afford tidder optaon of acoptanc ot or having bs ted | eee eee "eee (By Associated Press) “FIFTH COLUMN” COWS Si : a z cracy, Rev. Dick Evans, pointed the threatened fall of heb lairiphcaayr esate ter oo uti War may be avoided ‘out that we have three ‘lines ofjward of $100 for information aris, which would free huge Saat ar np a muliion po-jprowided only that quick help 151 i tease to consider: Firel, our leading to the arrest and convic forces for an attack on Eng- tential fifth columnists in the |given the Allies from every: an he | ' ste : i { F mana ic Military defense which is in the ltion of anyone found guilty of lend. |tions of state government and set |United States right now who}American financial, economic ‘ponds of the Army, Navy and — British | sounces iednitied jup their own administration at;have yielded to German pres-'and political source. I would like’ th its: Sécond.. investigation ;Slaughtering loggerhead or green 'Reynolds Ha f | sure”. i het iti ee sh po les the beaches of Si that they expected no whole- | Reynolds Hall on the campus o! jsure’ to see Te a coalition govern: jand check of subversive or “fifth- {turtles on e caches St *. ' 5 5 i sale turning over of materials {the Florida State College fo j Got After Nazis How. ment; I would like to see quick column” activities which is cen-|Johns, Fiagier or Volusia coun- to the Allies. They com. {| Women. “| Mr. Harpman added his appeal internment of potential fifth’ tered through the Federal Bu- 'ties. mented that the United | The boys will be divided into jto that of thousands of others columnists; and the severance of reau of Investigation; Third, a! “The inhuman viciousness of States would probably “think | £T0ups representing various gov-|that America deal quickly with !diplomatic relations with Ger- Srogram of positive education for |those who slaughter a turtle alive of America first”. Promised joomentgl departments. THty will jthe Nazis and the potential smany cannot come too soon”. ‘Democracy among our people. |by cutting out the eggs in ofder aid: tomevic-dead aaa {elect a governor and members of jtraitors in our midst. He has! Mr. Harpman has tried for During the period from June jio save themselves the time of news, if for no other reason | ‘he cabinet, as well as Supreme | been _Watching German infiltra- months without a shadow of suc-/14 to July 4 it is the plan of the | waiting until the eggs are laid, than propaganda purposes. ; Court Justices. Other groups iad ee into the Americas for thirty cess to find out whether his fa-' Congress to stage all manner of jshould be stopped”, said Burden. i — ;be composed of legislators, sena-|years during “which-tinie he has ther, two sisters,-a “brother and ‘patriotie events which will in-| Reports are received’ quite fre- SIT ISAISSS tors and representatives, com-jbeen trading for his firm in many twelve nieces and nephews in clude speakers at all civic clubs, | quently that turtle egg hunters H missioners and other officials. countries. and he says their or-' Holland are alive today. He says! special radio programs, parades,!many times destroy the giant fe- IT ALI AN ARMY Appointments of department /ganization in this hemisphere is American officials have been | and finally a real old time Fourth |male turtles in their efforts to |and bureau heads will be madeja dire menace. wholly unable to make any con-' of July celebration. Every city|secure eggs. Florida law pro- ‘by the boy governor and, follow- | Mr. Harpman says Nazi-in- ‘tacts that would bring him aland town in Florida is urged to tects the big sea reptile during HOLDS ATTACK i= the regular procedure, these ;spired outbreaks are likelv to oc- shred of news, and that the Bos- join in this great demonstration |the months of Mav, June, July , boys will, under the guidance of jcur at any time now in -South ton German consulate says it can‘ and officials of all organizations | and August, but the Florida Con- ; State officials, be given an in-|American countries; that Ger-’ make no connection with Nazi- are urged to contact President! servation Department has not suf- BRITISH BOMBERS nae Gee into the functions of each mans who have lived for several'controlled Rotterdam, his birth-/Colin English, Florida Congress ficient police facilities to cover ; department. years below the Panama Canal place. ifor Education in Democracy, | the sea coast and \prevent their OVER CITIES IN ITALY; Qe ee ee jare ready today to help achieve. Growing up in Holland, Mr.!qallahassee, or Executive Vice idestruction. The public is asked 1940 T ‘AX ROL I German domination of the world. Harpman underwent military | president Rev. Dick Evans of the lto co-operate by promptly re- TURKEY MOVES “Hitler is carrying on the training there and subsequently ! Congress, Miami, for details and porting the slaughter of turtles |world-domination policies of his traveled extensively in Europe, | information. iThe $100 reward will be paid (By Associated Press) | READY JULY a ee eee saree te te ok ae = aot er inane rl xnoci i s sca, employ y e lolland- ling, State Department of Con- tics tatacennbsancecend’ Bac. LONDON, June 12—The Ital- Se ! “Germans in foreign nations South American Trading com-| PATRICK KELLY servation, Tallahassee. "ian army has not moved |KIRCHHEINER MAKES OFFI-jhave been carefully indexed for pany. He has been in the United! H SES land, have been cut by the at- # moveral ai Tt = ‘si - { 1 tacking Nazi blitzkrieg forces. | 26ainst the French in southern! CIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN j* vo.) Years, It was going “on/States at intervals for the past/ RITES YESTERDAY Over 2,000,000 refugees are to- | France. previous to 1914 and it has been'ten years, coming back three j ; “HY ea eS THE CITIZEN TODAY ;going on ever since. Hitler has years ago from a three-year trip| 4 ora 4 day heading for southern cities That was the news that came i i . 4 e i inifcance and Paris presents a ae lonly been brazen enough to actu-' over the countries where he was! 1 IN HOSPITAL HERE caabalctcly, desivind « pienire ot through Hee the French high} Legal notice appears in this is- |@lly put into effect a plan of long in the habit of conducting trade |ALL MILITARY ORGANIZA- all st Jose up in the f. ¢ command at noon today. {sueof “The ‘Gitipencintoriing all} sss = : REPRESENTED i neato the pateia, Gin aes On the other hand, the British! property owners of the city that | H — sisi | supplies have been taken over by headquarters. here announced | Tax Assessor J. Otto Kirchheiner | j FUNERAL SERVICES | ACCIDENT DURING LIFEBOAT the military command, prepara-|that R.A.F. forces had success-| Will have the tax rolls for seis FINANCIER VS ; BLITZKRIEG | DRILL YESTERDAY tory toa long siege of Paris fully bombed several Italian cities|im readiness for presentation by = : should the Nazis be successful in| and had made extensive maneu- persone! a ‘gaat ot coun | im ee eee eateicls CAveED mueRE their encircling move. ‘ ith bombi ids in Libya; Members of the ai z OOPS bits who di londay | ‘The Nazis now have approached |and Ethiopia, | ty commissioners will meet in|Franee’s Reynaud Now Almost A One-Man Cabinet ‘morning at the Marine hospital | , closer to Paris than the Kaiser's; Egyptian officials were in con-| the clerk’s office at the county ;— - _ ‘were held yesterday afternoon | Arthur E. Backus, of Parish, 1914 invasion, being, according to|ference with British military | Courthouse at 11 o'clock in the} jfrom the Pritchard Funeral Home |N. Y., and Joseph R. Lucas, of one dispatch, only 12 miles from/heads at an unannounced loca-}™0rning of that date to hear any | WILLIAM McGAFFIN ichapel, at 5 o'clock, Rev. A. L.|Cambride, O, members of toe the outskirts of the city with | tion. Ronees of attack from{complaints and listen to any area SP ae 3 poortip pir Bere ns oases |Maureau, S. J., of St. Mary’s Star! personnel of the United States small detachments of mechanized | Italian forces was up for discus- | Statements as to the value of the | HERE - = RANCE, junpopular.. One commentator of The Sea church officiating. maritime training ship American forces. jsion, it was stated. holdings as fixed by the assessor, |June 12—Dapper little Paul |said, “Reynaud’s fate is to fore- | The services at cemetery were !Seaman, were injured late yes- No rescue of the city, such as There will be the usual pees evens sharp-eyed man from | see too soon”. june with full military|terday afternoon while going was effected in 1914, can be ac- | TURKISH cedure of reviewing and equaliz- | the mountains—sits in a big chair} When Hitler began building for /honors, the deceased having been |through “abandon ship practice” complished now, in the opinion | FLEET MOVES ing the assessments of the taxlat government _ headquarters | war, dieyosd< call on France !® member of the U. S. Marine | while off Key West. of military observers here. “If; LONDON 2 roll for the current year. iB 4 oa i } ; oe {Corps, with 32 years of service,} The injured men were brought Paris is, to be saved”, they state, | » June - 12.—Reports PRO TEES |“Somewhere-in-France”, wielding |to strengthen’ the military force. | before retirement. 5 Md ais bee, ae “it .will have to come from some |Te8ching here today indicated more legal power than any! He urged, in his book, that} Members of the Spanish-Am-;Guard patrol vessel 185, pleced new and ingenious plan”. That that Turkey has recalled all ships NAZI SUB ED |Frenchman since Napoleon Ill. " |France prepare, with fleets of erican’ War Veterans, Arthur |in an ambulance of the Pritch- the French are aware of this was ,°" the high seas, and its fleet is France picked Reynaud at the |). Sawyer Post 28, American Le-|ard Funeral Home and taken to 4 we . moving towards the Dardnelles !zero hour to stop Hitler’s charg- | P/@M€s tanks and armored cars|*% was } : : / © ——_ lemonstrated in information sent 6 S : - rags aa Ps a \gion, and the Ladies Auxiliary of |the Marine hospital for trest- CALLS FOR S2z7sengus Ex- the British in which they admit- |i" Maneuvers that may bring |,), 4). ling blitzkriegers. - Like Britain's °P¢Tating in mass formation. The Legion altended: anda firing | : ted that their forces were slowly f0Th declarations of war against ;Churchill, he'd been sharpshoot-/ When the English Pound | squad from the Marine Corps| At the h this PENDITURE ON 1961 nt tia : Italy and Germany within the ; : inancial |4°opped in 193) Reynaud wanted é | At the hospital oaning retreating in orderly fashion to CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTI. |ing France's defense and financial | /" ORV SS was present, firing three volleys. | it learned that Lucas | pre-arranged defense traps, next twenty-four hours. |policies through the years. jto d the franc, too. He| a Marine trumpter sounded taps. \had been laced L The Nazi high command, on|_, Rumania also has called in alll TY REPORTED TOSTATE {"'France found the little fellow Stuck to his guns for five years |“ M cb Cheete alidee 48 Lente conse ae the bthee: bande hes predicted ships, and additional reserves DEPARTMENT was right. France made Rey- | Those o had laughed came ceased were present at the} us pti come amy a 5 a4 ASHINGTON. that Paris will fall completely /h@ve been ordered to report to naud premier—and more. He’s/#Tound {o voting for his point of|¢ neral. k m 3 = 7 “in a few days”, appearing to ad- |W? offices throughout the land. ‘almost a. one-man cabinet—pre- |View. eek y mit, despite reported nearness of WASHINGTON, June 12—jmier, minister of war ard na- Pet > wepsiag finally CALL FOR BIDS their toreca anata hard State. Department officials today |tional defense, and foreign min-|°2me”, said he, “but it eomes. too gc einiee eS Ra SS ~—— 5 ay om. ig ‘work remains to be accomplished | er ERA announced that the Germans had | ister. late”. e Sealed bids will be received bythe water. While the boat ot before they can triumphantly en-| CAMP’ BEAUREGARD, La.—| admitted that it was one of their Then, CameAction | __ Launches: 9:Yeur' Plait’ the City Council of the City of being hoisted back to the ship| Ineuded im the contracts ter the city. jn fondness for the salty] submarines that stopped the $/S.| | France got action. In came Gen-|- French finances ‘weit into a}Key West, Fla. up to and in-!the accident occurred. The ole 45,000-tom battiesh=ps Bombing planes over Paris are’ {Aste of the mold which forms on} Washington - yesterday for ten jerals Weygand and Petain, who desperate decline that stopped (cluding July 3, 1940 at 4.00 p. m. illed ix a pushing their campaign of de-| ‘the insulation of field felephone| minutes and made threats of tor-| believed in beating the enemy to only when Reynaiid agreed to'to furnish and install at the City struction of all property. Build- lines was responsible for a| nedoing. the draw. Out went General become finance minister in Da-}Aquarium Two (2) Diesel En- ing after building is being hit, | break in communication lines in} “Jt was simply a case of mis-|Gdmelin and others who believed ladier’s cabinet. {Pnee i connected to Cen- many by incendiary bo. which | the army’s big war games re-|taken identity”, officials said, in}in waiting behind strong defens-} Reynaud, at the start of 1939, |trifugal Pumps. The Centrifugal combine to cast a pall 8€ smoke |Cently. The cows licked the in-| commenting .on dispatches from|es. Daladier, who had been for- launched = three-year plan, so|Pumps. fitted to pump salt water over the whole city as the flames |Sulation off the line, causing a| Berlin. The Nazi U-boat com-{eign minister after Reynaud suc-'severe it would have cost the |at a capacity of 400 G. P. M. at spread forth. | short-circuit. mander thought the Washington | ceeded him as premier. yhead of an ordinary finance min-|30 foot head. Also One (1) 3 K.|inj ees: | > was'a Greek ship, which had| Reynaud’s wartime job fits him ister. In general, he put the gov- |W. Direct Current Generator com- ALLIED 1 Seeiractd peer eeimee previously been given a route tojlike his well-tailored clothes and ernment on a “business basis.” plete with switchboard, gen- SURRENDER ON COAST |‘EXPERT AUTO REPAIRS | follow under threat of torpedoing !his bowler. He is a military strat-.Gold started Berlin, June 12.—The Comm if it was caught elsewhere. egist, wrote a book on “the new France. Production increased. - age ciate ey pe By SHORTY Officials here admitted that/type of war”. He's a financial ex: Unemployment decreased. force 4 . < notification of the sailing sched-|pert and, thus, holds the confi-} War, eight months later, inter- ec tee ete ares Southern Service Station |uic of the Washington had not {dence of France’s big business, jrupted the but those |to reject any or all bids. wey Ay ti ca beak Four) | ae Catherine Phone No. 5 been sent to Berlin until Monday He waited twenty years to be eight months of effort sent CHAS. R. ROBERTS, AI | OLX. : fo ee eee (Continuea: on Page Four) june12-It