The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 143. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 Boy Scouts Of Five’ Troops Will Attend Camp ly 7 To 21 TRANSPORTATION AR- ! RANGEMENTS COM-| PLETED; SITE IS CAMP. OWEN-BROREIN | | “We're all going to camp this | year!” That's the good news! one hears on the lips of all Boy | Scouts of this city today. as the; news was released concerning ar- | rangements made by the Monroe County District committee, head- ed by M. E. Berkowitz, to take all scouts that can go, to the en-! campment at Camp Owen-! Brorein, the official Boy Scout camp in the Tampa area. The committee has been study- , ing the problem of transportation of the Confer- to Tampa for all scouts five Key West troops. with ihe Guard ences Coast admitted from this U.S. 10 WATCH ALIEN ENTRIES EIGNERS MORE STRICTLY; FAIRNESS PROMISED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 14.—De- partment of Justice Department check of all aliens coming into the country would start imme- diately. Attorney General Jackson stated that “no aliens would be forth unless it could be proved the en- trance would be of benefit to the United States”. Jackson said further, however, that administration of the alien time | laws would have to proceed un- headquarters here brought out the fact that present schedules and facilities would not allow any ship to make ‘the tfip. It remained, then, for the group to obtain some form of auto transportation. This has been accomplished, according to announcement today, by utiliza- tion of two Monroe County School buses, by permission of the Monroe county School Board, and a truck owned by the Key West Gas Company, the lat- ter vehicle to be used chiefly as a carrier for all baggage. Of interest to the scouts, and their parents, too—is the official recognition and sanction given to the encampment, which opens July 7th and closes July 20th. The National Boy Scout Council has been contacted and the co- operation of that greup has been promised. It is not known now just how many boys will make the trip. The cost per boy, however, was given out as $9.00. This amount, considered very low by leeal au- thorities, includes all expenses, toll gate payments, meals en route and full stay at the camp. Three scoutmasters will ac- company the’ boys—Milton Saw- yer of troop 52, Johnny Esperdy of troop 50 and Albert G. Peirce, Jr., of troop 51. i LITTLE RETURNS FROM HAVANA ROTARY DELEGATE TO CON- VENTION THOROUGHLY ENJOYED EXPERIENCES W. V. Little, delegate to the International Rotary Convention in Havana, was a returnnig pas- senger on SS. Cuba yesterday afternoon, after having enjoyed a wonderful time at the conven- tion as well as the alluring sights to be seen in the city: Mr. Little said that he did not have much time to spend on, sightseeing, his time being taken up with the business of the con- vention, but he did pay several visits to buildings and was es- pecially interested in the Centro Asturiano and the Centro Gallego and the magnificent marble stairways leading to the build- ings. Brady’s (Live) Poultry and Egg Market 19¢ Fresh Fla. Grade A EGGS, doz. __ , 23¢ der fair and strict iaws in order that relations in this country of aliens seeking entry would not be offended. and be-tempted to join in fifth column endeavors. NAZI FRANCE MEET AGAIN ON MOSQUITO CONTROL PLAN: COMMANDER E. LAUGHLIN CALLS CIVIC AND GOVERN- | MENT - REPRESENTATIVES TO CONFER TODAY Lieut.-Comdr. E. U.S.N., met with C. J. Boutelle, WPA area_ supervisor; Everett Russell, Chamber of Commerce | announced today that a thorough | President; Dr. J. B. Parramore, D. Z. Harrison, Councilman Ralph Boyden and others interested to- day in a meeting in the naval dis- pensary building called shortly after 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. Continuation of discussion about possibility of carrying on an extensive mosquito control project on the island was the subject of the conference, partic- ulars of which were not avail- able at press time this afternoon. Earlier this week, at the call of Captain W. F. Jacobs, comman-, dant of the naval station, a joint meeting came to no definite de- cision when it developed that there were ‘no funds in the city to carry on the work. The navy stood prepared, however, to offer supervision and considerable ma- + terial inthe form of lubricating and waste oil. : Lions Held Round-Table Discussion On Sth Column Key West Lions Club went} into the subject of “What is to be done about Foreign Agents” last night at their regular weekly supper meeting at the Lions’ Den, | with Lion Charles Ketchum, chairman of the Patriotism and Citizenship Committee, in charge of the program. First vice-presi- | dent John Costar was in the chair in the absence of President Saunders. j Following an introduction, the speaker conducted a round-table discussion of several points in} connection with foreign agents. | popularly called “fifth column-/} ists’. The program was spon-; sored by the Socratic League of } America, prepared for Lions In- ternational and distributed to all} clubs nationwide. The following questions were thoroughly discussed by the Lions and guests assembled at the| meeting. Believing that the gen- eral public would be interested in knowledge of what approach was made to the subject, full re- lease of the outline was suggest- ed by the Lions: How far do you think the peo- ple of the United States should go in dealing with propagandists, foreign agents, and others who! are trying to undermine our pa- triotism, our government, and our way of life? | Why do you believe what should be done? What do you think are the most difficult problems to _face/ in dealing with propagandists, foreign agents, and others. who} jeopardize the peaceful progress/ of our government and way of| life? ! What do you think we, as citi-} that is zens, should do toward finding|right of the people peaceably to/- and reporting propagandists, for-|assemble, and to petition the | th: eign agents, and subversive work-! ers? What dangers do you see for democracy itself in a campaign against propagandists, forejgn} agents, and subversive workers? | The original thirteen American | colonies ratified the Constitution | of the United States after the} people had been assured that ay propagandists, “Bill of Rights” would be added foreign agents, and subversive, to it. This “Bill of Rights” com-jworkers without violating this} Phone 540 prises the first ten amendments amendment to the Constitution? ‘ to the Constitution. The first amendment -reads: “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or pro- hibiting the free exercise there- LIONS CONDUCT ANNUAL ELECTION Annual election of the Lions Club was held at the meeting last night, with the following being elecfed to of- fice for the new year start- ing July 1: President, Gerald Saun- John Costar: second vice- third vice-president, Charles Ketchum: secretary. Allan Armstrong: treasurer, Jack Delaney. Tailtwister. Joe Allen: Lion Tamer, Andrew Pritch- ard; two-year directors. Joe Mondul and Hastings Smith: hold-over directors. J. C. Sanchez and Charles John- sen. One hundred percent at- tendance butions were pre- sented to the following mem- bers: Lions Joe Allen, Allan Armstrong. Gerald Saun- ders. Hastings Smith, Charles Ketchum, Andrew Pritchard, John Costar and Jack De- laney. Guests at the meeting were Myrtland Cates, H. S. Mc- Clanahan, Allan B. Cleare. Jr. and Rev. Ted Jones of the First Baptist Church. of; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the government for a redress of grievances”. It is under the pro- tection of this guarantee of free- dom of speech and press, plus the right of peaceable assembly, that much work is done -by foreign agents and subversive workers. In your judgment, what is the best way to conduct a campaign against y Laughlin, * * REFUSES PEA 'MAGINOT LINE IN DANGER OF CHALLENGE AS GERMAN FORCES ADVANCE Paris. FROM REAR (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 14.—For the second time in history, the German flag, this time, the Nazi swastika, flies over} mans early this morning to save it from destruction. As the Nazi mechanized units proceeded onto the city’s boulevards in tanks bristling with machine pointed in all directions, the French took up stands south | and east of the city, although they were hard pressed by ' enemy forces pushing on beyond Paris. In 1871, at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian | war, calvary troops marched triumphantly into Paris, quite JOINT MEETING TONIGHT, DISCUSS wx> core to stsy behind and BEACH PROJE CITY AND COUNTY GROUPS | TO ASSEMBLE AT COURT-, HOUSE AT 8:00 O'CLOCK: | SPONSORSHIP IS SOUGHT © \ i Joint meeting of the City Coun-! cil and County Board will be held tonight in tne county courthouse proved far superior to the Allied | at 8:00 o'clock. Subject of the new Beach proj- ect for Roosevelt boulevard will come up for discussion, it was announced by Cunty Chairman Carl Bervaldi. Members of the Board of Public Works and Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association have also been asked to attend the meeting. Total cost of the project, which has been drawn up for a ‘WPA project, has been announced as $64,452. Sponsorship of $28,270 must be provided, however. and it is this matter that will be dis- cussed from the standpoint of ability of the various agencies to co-operate in a co-sponsorship ar- rangement. SPONGE SALE "NETS $225.80 There were 13 lots of sponges offered to buyers at the munici- |pal sponge dock this morning, and some of the offerings brought excellent prices. For the 65 bunches the price paid was |$225.80. One lot of eight bunches brought a price of $42.69, another lot of six bunches was sold for} $29.15, a lot of 10 bunches went for $44.15 and one lot of il bunches was bid at $51.10. One bunch sold for $5.10. : TENDER GANNETT (84 ~ RETURNS T0 PORT Tender Gannett, with target in} |tow which was used in the prat' tice of destroyers of the neutral-! lity patrol in the area, arrived in} and in variance to the sights beheld today by approximately one-: third of the residents of Paris risk their chances under German The Paris victory came after nine days of Nazi blitzkrieg op- erations unheard of in the history of all warfare, Pressing on and* French troops, the Hitler army. said to exceed 1.800.000 men. units. The Nazi high command an-; nounced at noon today that it would only be a matter of a few days before the entire French army was wiped out or captured, and indicated that a Separate peace with France would be negotiated in a few days. Them, it was stated, the commence. Premier Reynaud, in broad- France. combined in would not accept Allied war offices, both here and in France, however, were of against further advances and to Start counter offenses as soon as possible. British war office announced plans to rush all | available men and materials to the aid of France, even to the fensés, so vitally needed as Ger- mans control more and more of ‘French territory. The important coast city of LeHavre was reported as fallen ? Hi ILL BOARD NOW MOVING AT FAST CLIP REPORTS ON FEBRUARY. | MARCH AND APRIL MUR-! The French capital was surrendered to the Ger- ; | PHY SALES RECEIVED: RE-; | JECTIONS SHOWN | Following an exchange of tele- grams to and from Tallahassee, the Internal Improvement Board has finally actea on the Murphy sales of February, March and ‘April, according to announce- ment by Ross C. Sawyer, county clerk. Complete reports, with notations, were mailed Wednes- day and are now on file in the cierk’s office. Following checking of the reports. applications rejected by the board were listed as: Numbers 32. 39. 40. 41. 161. 163, 164. 190. 191. 274, 277. 283 and 453. | It is possible now for bidders {to make final decisions as to ac- ‘ceptance of LI. Board deeds, Mr. :Sawyer stated, especially in re- gard to those parcels on which municipal taxes have not been paid. All those desirous of obtaining jthe refund as ordered by thé jboard in cases where the sale conflicts with the Supreme, Court decision concerning municipal taxes, should make their inten- tions known to the county clerk’s office as soon as possible. }It will be best, Mr. Sawyer stat- ed, to cancel the bids now rather than wait for arrival of the deeds back from Tallahassee, or for- warding of bid money to that ; city. All deeds are prepared, as an- ;nounced before, and following checking with the report just received, will be sent forward to be signed by the LI Board, fol- lowing which they will be re- jturned without further delay. Refunds can be made only on bids within the city limits, Mr. Che Key West Citizen COMMENT ON PARIS DOESN'T DISCUSS REYNAUD PLEA. EITHER: SIGNS ARMY BILL (By Associated Preas> WASHINGTON, June President Roosevelt refused to comment today on the fall of Paris or on Premier Reynaud's desperate plea broadcast last night calling on the United States to enter the war. He signed the new army ap- propriation bili of $1,822,000,000 this morning at the White House which is only the start of similar appropriations to bolster defens- es of the United States. This bill is an important slice of the defense program and fol lows signing of the air expan sion bill for $1,500,000,000 signed earlier this week, which calls for huge construction program on planes and training of 7,000 pi- lots annually. M4— CONGRESS DECLARES FINNISH MORATORIUM WASHINGTON. June 14— Congress todav passed a resolu- tion that, gives permission to Finland to skip the next two years of its war debt payments without jeopardizing its standing as the only nation that meets the payments. Government of Finland declar- ed before the moratorium was voted that it stood ready to make the payments due next week. DRILLS IN THE SEA TO GET FRESH WATER (Ry Associated Presa) HOUSTON, Tex—A water well was drilled five miles out in Galveston bay by the Humble Oil & Refining Company. The company wanted the water for steam boilers at an oil test in the bay. It's easier to drill a well for fresh water than to extract salt from bay waters. THE E. r. United States to send imme- Interyiew Appeared In St. Paul Pioneer Press Peace with Germany. | for in Some excellerit publicity jKey West appeared recently ' a definite mind to defend France the St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn, in the form of an jinterview with Mr. and Mrs. E. |P. Winter. of this city, who are spending a short visit in their for- | mer home-city. The interview, which is quoted herewith in its entirety, is re- layed to The Citizen via the local Chamber of Commerce: “A rambing one-story house, set in scenery of unsurpassed tropical beauty, was completed: Tecently in Key West by Mr. and: | Mrs. Everett P. Winter, formerly | (of St.Paul, and will be their fu-| }ture permanent home. | | “‘After spending several win- ‘ters ‘there, we concluded ~ Key West was the ideal spot for year- Key West is much like that of the West Indies, Mrs. Winter said. ‘In fact’, she explained, ‘many visi- tors on the island never seem to realize that itis a part of Florida, but assume that it belongs to the West Indies and ask what kind of postage and how much it takes to send a letter. “In the past few years more and more Americans have been coming to Key West for the win- jter and a good many are making growth of the artists’ there has been so rapid it has won for the town the name of the Provincetown of the South’ In innumerating some of the distinguished names that made up the roster of winter residents on the island, Mrs. Winter men- jport this morning and berthed at (to the Nazis late today. Extreme ‘round living’, Mrs. Winter said tioned Karl Milles, the sculptor, the breakwater in the naval sta- tion. Vessels of the patrol in port is morning were the Destroy- jers Aaron Ward and the Hale, ilying at the repair finger pier, and the Lea, berthed at Pier B. DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT ' RAUL’S CLUB ) Muste By MINIMUM CHARGE Gangte 25 the Meginct Lins inthe | winter for a fortnight’s stay at jing movements to come up be- (Continued on Page Three) |last week on her arrival with Mr. and his wife; Anton Otto Fischer, famous marine artist; Virginia Berrseford Thielen, whose pic- tures have an important place at av TION AT MEETING LAST NIGHT: DISCUSS TAXES City Council met i special session lest aight «f council Chambers and held « brief se sion im regerd {© co-cperstice with the County Board's ection an asking presidenfial supper: =‘ the move to extend the Oversees Highway over the cid ruiiroed raght-of-wey. north end south of the Bridge District. Attorney Aguiline Lopez resobut followed the county whuch requested al bers of Congress from Fiend: * urge President Roose stitute proceedings the highway Following reading*af the = olution, the council passed unanimousiy Informal discusssen of th Su preme Cogrt Gecisian thet of fected all property m meme bes on which tazes tied not pe paid, this im connection vald:ty of Internal Impen—o Board deeds to be given Sie ing Murphy tend soles. wae « tered imto Atteruey Lopez queried council or procedure tc tole regard to 2 suggestion @ast been made to set “clearance of det figure. The 1 County Clerk's eer suggested that 2 nominal go —from $1 00 to $5. 60—te chare-< im order to clear lands and pot them back on tax books Following the dacus==o was decided to make the a first order pusmess at next regular meeting to be Beit Thursday. June 22 closely = ™. <-. TTALYS PLANES SONS BASE (By Aasortstet Powe LONDON, June 14 —Duspetches from sowth France today stated that French and Stalin 4 trocps hed clashed mm the Alps sectors and that mereesec an operetioms were noted as Italien pieoes flew over several cites m south France i f : | if i > Z i f