The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 15, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 144. N BRITAIN PREPARES ITS|\ SDD O@DaDSa £4 DEFENSES FOR IM-|MIDSHIPMEN NOW PENDING NAZI _IN- ON TRAINING -TRIP VASION (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. June 15— Ten United States Navy de- stroyers carrying the Naval Academy's third-year class arrived here yesterday to at- tend the regatta at Pough- keepsie next Tuesday. After this event, the cadets will call at the West Point Military Academy and then sail to Hampton-Roads, Virginia, Pensacola and Key West. Florida, getting back to Annapolis on July 13th. The ships are the Claxton, Decatur, Jacob Jones, Roper. Schenck. Badger, Babbitt. Fairfax, Truxton and Simp- son, (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 15.—The scheduled to Fortress Has Falle ‘RUSSIA MOVES | ON LITHUANIA: | | i ALLIES HOPEFUL INVASION CALLED PRIVATE! Che Key rat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1940 Increases In WPA Work Aer Jl STATE ADMINISTRATOR WAS HERE ON INSPEC- TION TOUR Roy Schroder. State WPA Ad-; the laboring people had to be cut ville office this morning follow: | ministrator, left for his Jackson- ; off rolls due to shortage of funds. This cut also affected about 1,000 SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS FOR.; ing a three-days’ tour of inspec- | supervisors, too, he stated. HELP | (By Associated Press) H | MATTER: ALLIES CONTINUE | | i | | 15.—Allied ! LONDON, June j tion to the projects in this city | jand a side-trip to Fort Jefferson ' appeared to believe that follow- witness the rehabilitation, ing July Ist, and the beginning to work at that point. Mr. Schroder called at As to the future, Mr. Schroder } of a new fiscal year, many Slated The. would be added to the rolls in $16,500 FOR JUNE SO FAR) Building and repair permits is- sued from the office of Building | Inspector Harry M. Baker for the! second period of the month of! June, were for $4,800, making al total for the ‘ month of $16,500. | ‘hopes for a gesture from Russia | Citizen office before leaving and’ this and other localities in the | For the second period the per-} that mignt mean a check on Ger- |many’s push for world power in Europe received some stimulus }today in the reported movement of Russian troops into Lithu- | WPA situation as a whole, he wide program with co-operation ; ania. scribed as strictly a private mat-| that approximately 40 per cent of . year. iter between the Soviets and Lithuanians, over disputes of concession management. Nevertheless, observers out that Germany entirely now by the Russian na- tion from th Balkans to the Baltic Sea, and it is thought that Allied efforts to receive moral point support in opposition to Ger-lher home, 615 Whitehead street. | j many may come with continued negotiations. FRENCH EMPLOY PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS | -ROME, June. 15.—French”™ air- +planes =ypeared over this andi is bordered | j expressed complete satisfaction | with all projects here. j In commenting on the state state. While refusing to be quoted, | |Mr. Schroder looked for an en-|{ largement of the whole state-| mits are as follows: Repairs to the one story resi- dence at the corner of Seminary : and Francis streets. Owner, w.i j Stated that the past three months ‘in the National Defense work the | J- Schoneck; cost, $1,000. { The invasion, however, is de-|have witnessed trying times in main theme duri ig the coming 'RITES TODAY FOR FLORA NAVARR | Miss Flora Navarro, 66, died jyesterday afternoon 5 o'clock at {Funeral services will be held {this afternoon 530 o'clock fro the residence to St. Mary’s Star jof the Sea Church, Rev. A. Maurgau,..S.J., officiating. ig ‘Lopez Funeral Home “is. in “This would naturally} j mean increased! employment in! Key West”, he stated. Official! !announcements on this subject. |are expected following a confer-} ence of State Administrators in; St. Louis tate this month. 1 ~. The local Sewing Room project: | will be augmented with the addi-| of 15 women starting to work next Monday, Mr. Schroder. announced. General repairs to two story | residence at 920 North Beach. | Owner, Joseph Russell; cost, $1,- General repairs to frame two story. residence at 621 Eaton street. Owner, Eugene Demeritt; ' cost, $1,000. : ' General repairs to frame two story building at 506 Greene street. Owner, Joe Russell; cost, $500. i General repairs to one story Owner, Jose Lounders; cost, $500. ‘COAST GUARD MEN, residence at 512 Catherine street. sON “WAY. TO JAX U. S. Senate was act on the House Relief] other ixalian het cities today, jcharge of arrangements. | Miss Navarro is survived by| General repairs to frame one story residence at 307 Wirginia/ stfeet. -Owner, Joaquin Osorio; ; cost, $500. Biil of $1,224,000,000 in a holiday session to clear the decks for ac- tion on the new tax and defense measures now coming in from to of the stated last industries | didn’t drop any bombs. Instead, thousands of propa- ganda over the countryside reminding the Italtan populace that Musso- lini wanted war and that “now the was going to get it”. i The mes$ages called on the} Italians to “stop the foolish warj jagainst the French—you: will get! nothing. win or lose”. Si | ‘SERVICES SUNDAY | ~-FOR AARON KEMP Ralph Aaron Kemp, 58, died yesterday afternoon 3:30 o'clock: at the residence, 629 United | street. Funeral services will be} |held at 2 o'clock tomorf®w aft- ernoon from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home to St. Paul’s} ficiating. Pallbearers, who will serve, leaflets were scattered; three sisters’ Misses America, Puro and Maria Navarro. IAA AA 2 PAL IT TAKES A THIEF TO OUTSMART A THIEF |. (My Associated Prensa) It left the s. s. men no al- ternative but to hop out of a Ss. Ss. window. i Repairs to steps at 503 Duval: ‘FOUR -EMPLOYES REPORT, street, frame two story business. | i Owner, L. L. Bethel; cost, $200. | i MONDAY AT HEAD- Renew roof of two story build- } ARTERS ing at 602 Duval street. Owner, sae Mrs. Wm. Mendell; cost, $100. Attaches of the United States ‘oast Guard who have received ‘orders transferring them from ‘Key West base to headquarters} |at Jacksonville district and have | ‘been detached from duty in this! city, have left or will leave to} accept their assignments. Vernon Albury and William B. Demeritt, clerks, left this morn- j ing. Chief Clerk Lionel Plum-j mer left yesterday for the pur- pose of visiting his son, Joe, and family, in Miami, before proceed- ing to his destination, and W. J. Schoneck, assistant lighthouse engineer, will leave on the 7 o'clock bus tomorrow morning. | All report for duty next Mon- |Church, Rev. A. B. Dimmick Sa I IAAI IIS 2 day at headquarters. | are: Ralph . Pinder, Raymond Johnson, Leonard Sawyer, ‘Ern- ;amnounced this week that MARKET MANA TO MEET JUNE 27 THREE-DAY MEETING HEAR REPORTS OF SEA- SON'S ACTIVITIES JACKSONVILLE, Fia., June 15 (FNS).—William L. Wilson, di- rector of State Farmers Markets, | meeting of all committee chairmen for state markets would be held in Jack- reports of the past season's ac-| tivities would be reviewed and plans mapped for future activities "SLID MAGLS. AN OLD STORY—THE g [ See Hits ae Heart i i f i ii ' Hy if rf i : F f r F i | | J 1 |DECISION MADE | JOINT MEETING HELD , hah d dh A Ad A tering the “Bowed Sou” Ross C. Sawyer, county clerk. jarathon owned by R I Bushes a stated today that there was some and stealing money managers and misunderstanding about the re- and other articies |port returned from Tallahassee i sohyille, June 27, 28, 29, when | ‘his week from the I 1 Board in 5 400 Tirso 2 trae ia, regard to the applications had not been approved?) The items as pul ogams cancer They were arraigned Sr pee agfose Cour”, afjer bemng brought = the charges were reac with special attention to what/day may yet be approved. he a a ee with |_. LONDON, June 15.—Nazi high command today claimed that the French stronghold at Verdun had fallen, and if this is. true, coupled | } with the reported fall. of Mont- j medy, the anchor fortress at the | westend of the Maginot Line, it | Row appears that the French | | main line of defenses built at tre- | mendous expense over a long! Period of years, is in serious Britain continued in its efforts; CH PDI IDS S S 2 to bolster the French lines with | shipments of more materials and ‘SENATE PREPARES men to the defending forces now preparing to dig in 40 miles south | FOR DEFENSE BILLS of Paris. At the same time, how-| ever, attention is being paid to} a2 ons the strengthening of home de-|NEW RELIEF BILL EXPECTED fenses. i British headquarters recalled | TO BE PASSED Hitler's time table of invasions in TODAY Europe, as announced months ago. In it, the German feuhrer Stated that Paris would fall by | June 15th. Running. true to; schedule, almost to the day,~ the English remember that the same table calls for capitulation of England by August 15th, and every force is being expended to ward off the blows @xpected to start soon. The German radio-broadcast- ers, now located in Paris, state the House. that a separate peace will be of-' Two important bills may also fered France, probably tonight, .ome up today in the Senate— or tomorrow. French govern- o.. calling for registration of all ment heads, however, have is she thy moved from Tours to a farther @liens in the country, the other south city, which is taken to permitting the RFC loan mean that the French will con-' money to private industry co- tinue to defend their country operating in the defense pro- Nazi offense is now located} aS about 15 miles south of Paris, A ry t tae pushing directly south. Other Samp sail units are moving up the Marne jnight that ienirin river towards strongholds Uc_ | would be able to cope with every hind the the channel coast, is (Problem involved in the national peo set see hited the of- {defense program, and that no Seen eurihee south along. the |‘Touble would be experienced in en a been stilled for the fulfilling every demand made. 4 oad least He spoke ata dinner of the Har- sy: . D vard School of Business at:Cam- a bridge. SMALL DISTINCTIONS ae - seicciameroacie i ade: seca nee” \ } cn amecnica room CATCH BICYCLE s aT LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June i ? oast: 5 se eakness 15.—Monsieur Huguenin oi the THIEVES FRIDA jest Roberts,” Leon Peacon and ‘ village of Tour-de-Peilz belongs Clenfiy Demeritt. é tha: Saal gevernniate pre- |=2id- Tt - board is holding them sin trey hens sein ae ont Xcons sunieet % TS Denounced By Hagood =si= 2 under advent ot pret ow constructing the “world’-small-| wijjiam Eugene Hall and Rich- | Widow, Mrs. Jennie Kemp; three | Wilson pointed out that food is |ing to necessity of studying com- est-this-or-that”. M. Huguenin,/.,4 winters, colored, were ar- | sisters, Mrs. Aurelio Torres, Mrs. | es Fe even more essential than arma- plaints that have been sent by whose specialty is electrical en-|resteq yesterday afternoon by |Ethea Stricker and Miss aida: (Special to The Citisen) ments and while the nation is |others than bidders. gines, is buisly competing with | police Officer Ray Atwell, charg- | Kemp; three brother, Dr. William | NEW YORK, June 15.—The}|the country’s Atlantic naval|™2PPing its military program, it| Thé applicati pat ¢ himself. ae Jec- £4 With stealing two bicycles be-|Kemp, Eugene Kemp and Sami united States Army's failure to! bases are so lacking in guns, | imperative that everyone give| 4. 35 “39 ee cage Last year he exhibited an elec-|ionging to Mary E. Whalton and | Kemp. provide adequate base protection /mines, submarines, aircraft. or. |€VeTy consideration to the mat-|°2° 32 39, 40, 41, 161, 168, 190, trical motor weighing sixteen | Fay Lamont Piodela. awa a A | of the Navy and for harbors of | ganization and men, that it is a{|‘T of mobilizing the agricultural 191. 274, 277, 282 and 453. grams (.564 pee saversupe) Soon after the theft, Hastings | "PY°MOP*° QOL a OD. jcommercial and strategic. im-| question whether they could be |Tesources and it is his aim to see} Mr. Sawyer again calls atten- housed in a match box. It was ex-| piodela, father of Fay, and his rtance is a bet: 1 rust | Closed to a hostile fleet inside six | that Florida is in the vanguard in tion to the importance of regis- hibited at the Swiss National Ex- | ,other. Wilbur, started on a WE DON’T ADVISE jt rayel of tras - “4 eX | his respect. j THIS—BUT ITSA | Position, billed as the world’s! hunt for the bicycles and located smallest electrical engine—and them and the boys shortly. At there were no challengers. This year M. Huguenin has| constructed an electrical motor weighing only six grams (.212 ounce avoirdupois) which he has placed inside a pearl lent by a jeweler. He says that given time (he’s only 45 now) he may do}; even better than that: “HITIIsss: BONITA WILL BE GIFT TO C. OF C. A large bonita was caught off Key West Thursday by David E. Mulholland, of Fort | Myers, Fla. while out fish- ing with Jakie Key. Mr. Mulholland left orders to mount the which weighed 1812 pounds, and he | wil] present it to the Key IDILIOIIaS VERY SLICK IDEA the same time Officer Atwell} appeared on the scene and placed the boys under arrest, taking them to the county jail. The boys are to be given a/ hearing next week by Juvenile Judge Juliette Russell. WAY TO MOBILE’ Steamer Harpoon, which was towed into the harbor last week by the Coast Guard Cutter Pan-j dora with pump trouble and had | been at anchor in the inner har- r since that time, left for Mo- bile last evening. About 5 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon the tug Bascobel, of Mo- bile, arrived in the harbor and by 8 o'clock all had been gotten in| readiness on the Harpoon and the vessel and tug left for their des- tination. i. prosecuted”. DPIIIDOIIIL: | treachery of the officials at Oslo | Should be organized: jif war comes, according to an’ 1. A competent officer should analysis of the country’s defenses | be assigned to the command of written by General Johnson Ha- | the. fortified area. It makes no good, America’s leading au-! difference whether he be an of- thority on coast defense, and’ ficer of the Army or of the Navy. Published this week in Collier's | He should be assigned by the ; Pointing out that.jit makes. no : President and ifference to the enemy why the rank sufficient ing don't .shoot,just .-se; they having.to give up the don't shoot, ,. General--!sHagood ' to someone ‘else’ who might Germans know all about ‘the present conflict forts. Some years ago in | between Army and ing a lecture to be de-} 2 i livered before the Naval War) the land they might attempt to do so.” After describing in detail how i