The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No, 148. Jumor Chamber Installs Officers At Dinnet-Dance * | OUTGOING OFFICERS GIVE REPORTS; sur. FIRE INSURANCE PORT TO RED ‘cRoss| RATES TO DROP. DRIVE PLEDGED | | STATE AGENTS PREPARE | NEW SCHEDULE TO GO | | | INTO EFFECT LATER Jaycees and their ladies cele- brated last evening with a ban- quet and dance held for installa- tion of new officers of Key West! MIAMI, June 20—(FNS) A Junior Chamber of Commerce. | rates for Florida is in propect, {according to O. Mitchell Stal- ‘lings, immediate past president of the State Association of Insu- rance Agents in session here. Stallings said that a schedule of new lower rates was being pre- pared but that they would not go into effect for several months. Some ‘insurance officials cated a reduction of 33 1-3 per- cent. The banquet at Gulf Stream Restaurant was presided over by Isadore Weintraub, retiring head of the organization, who called | for reports from the various of- ficers and committeemen. Outgoing Wilbert Mochrke made a report on fi- nances of the year showing that the organization had been more successful from a financial stand- | point during the past year than ever in the history of the club. After introducing Delmar But- ler, vice-president, Charles Rob- erts, treasurer, Joe Pinder, sec- retary and directors, Hunter Har- treasurer rectors reaffirmed endorsement of the Everglades National Park, offered the organization’s facili- ties toward promoting national defense, urged a statewide ad- . a | a Statg Bar Association proposal den, Dan- Hartison, Wilbert | t, modernize Florida's 111-year- Moehrke, William R. Warren, | oi civil court procedure. called on the new president, Joe Allen to take over the gavel. ADMIRAL STARK WARNS JAYCEES TO PREPARE Following short talks by the new officers and Jaycees Will FOR SACRIFICES Doughtry and Bernie Papy, the new president appealed to the membership to support the drive which is now being made by the American Red Cross to raise Key West quota of $600 for relief in war-stricken France and other countries. A resolution pledging support was passed. Following the banquet the group retired to Pena’s Garden of Roses where a dance was held. Those attending were: Isadore Weintraub, Miss Isabel Kelly, Russell Saxton of New Smyrna, Will Doughtry, Bernie Papy, Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Daniels. Henry Taylor, Jr., Joe Allen, Miss Winifred Shine, Jay Strick- er, Miss Edith Moffatt, Miss Ruth Rose Galey, Orvis Kemp, Joe Pinder, Miss Pat Mansker, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew. Elwood. Miss Mary Whalton, Chester Knowles, Charles Hjort, Wilbert Moehrke. C.0.P.’S PAUSE ON FOREIGN POLICY PLATFORM COMMITTEE HITS SNAG; MANY OPINIONS GIVEN (By Assoctated Press) WASHINGTON, June 20.—The House of Rep ntatives label- led the new na expansion bill for early action in their chamber. One of the pro- visions of the bill is to increase the amount of navy planes to be built this year from 10,000 to 15,000. Admiral Harold Stark, chief of naval operations, today told the Junior Chamber of Commerce national convention assembly that the United States must pre- pare for great sacrifices in the future, even as democratic na- tions in Europe were now going through. Stark especially called atten- tion to the actions of fifth columnists in this country and called on the young businessmen to be alert in effort to Suppress subversive activities of all kinds. JAPAN PROTESTS U.S. NAVY P (By Associated Press) TOKIO, June 20.—Japan today 20.— |served warning on ‘the United States that she did not like the idea of a two-ocean navy for America. Government officials (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, June The resolutions’ committee of the Republican party was stymied today in its effort to draft defi- nite form of its statement con- cerning foreign policy of thejhelp to the Chinese in the war United States. now raging in that country. Sortie factions, present here for! Preliminary arrangements are the opening of the . convention | going forward for a regumption:of next Monday, wanted this coun? trade agreements between Japan. try to “go all the way” in fur- and the United States. nishing arms and supplies. Others called for partial assistance only. Ex-governor Alf Landon, 1936 standard bearer, and his delega- tion, were withholding any opi- nion until tomorrow, when im- portant news from abroad was expected. B. P. 0. ELKS, No. 551 Importing Meeting Tonight. Ledge (Rooms, 8:00 o’Clock Visiting Elks Welcome. GEO. 0. LUCAS. Secretary. NO WONDER Baltimore, Md.—Petitioning the Court for permission to change his name, Vincent F. Gieraltowski said a shorter name would be ‘more convenient for use”—not to mention spelling. TACKY DANCE Benefit Young People’s Sodality Pena’s Garden of Rose: Friday, June 21. 10 till ? ADMISSION _____..____ 50 | sharp reduction in fire insurance | advo-* Resolutions.adopted by the di-! vertising program, and endorsed ! LIONS CLUB IN | FAR-WEST LIKES SEN. PEPPER |} WOULD TRADE WASHING- TON’S SENATOR FOR FLO- | TWO CONGRESSMEN i | Tallahassee, June 20.—(FNS) ! The Tallahassee Democrat reports the receipt of a wire from the Chelan Lion’s Club. of Chelan, | ; Wash., offering to trade Senator | Homer Bone and two congress- ; men for Florida’s Senator Claude | | Pepper. The club advised that) i they had adopted the following | | resolution unanimously: “Resolved that the Lake Che- ‘tan Lion’s Club would like to ' trade our Senator Homer T. Bone ;and two assorted congressmen {for young forthright Senator | Pepper who has the candor to | speak his mind upon crucial af- i fairs of the day.” Nominated For Judge Curtis L. Waller, attorney, former law partner of Claude Pepper was notified last week of ‘his nomination for the new : Federal judgeship recently es- tablished in Florida. Senator Pepper telegraph Wal- ler that his nomination was sent to the Senate by the Justice De- partment with the approval of President Roosevelt. The appointment would give Waller jurisdiction in both the northern and the southern dis- tricts of Florida as a “roving judge without requiring specific assignment for him to go from one district to another. | RIDA SOLON; THROW IN IN THE U.-S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940 oe oe ~ EXPANSION OF = Knows Courtesy Pays! AIR FACILITIES FOR CONNECTICUT rv CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE COMMITTEE CON- SIDERS CO-OPERATION WITH FEDERAL PROGRAM H | | That courtesy pays is ae jdenced by a letter received yes- | jterday from Martin Ratchford, | | of Norwalk, Conn., by Claude W. | Brown, local guide on sight-seeing ‘ | tours who was employed by the | ; | Ratchfords when they visited in| ,2®™P@, June 20.—Expenditure Key West last year. | of more than $20,000,000 for mili- Mr. Brown served the Ratch- | @‘Y aviation facilities in Florida |ford family on their visit and: >Y the United States has given a when they going back home he | 8eater impetus than ever before took care of their car until it|'® 2Vlation development in tnis (Special to The Citizen) Peace Terms Withheld; Petain Has Not Resigned Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER a was sent for. He took the car to /State, it was pointed out today Miami and delivered it to Mr.| bY M. M. Frost of Tampa, chair- Ratchford. ;man of the aviation committee | Yesterday,s letter was an ex- jot the Florida State Chambeer of | Pression of thanks for the many Commerce. : {kindnesses extended to the; Announcing a meeting of his Ratchford family, and assured |8toup in the Tampa Terrace Ho- ' Mr. Brown that he would be al- ‘tel at 4 p.m. Friday, June 21, ! ways sure of a job with the!Frost said the committee will family. Enclosed was the fare to adopt a program of work for sub- ; | Norwalk amounting to $50, , Mission to tne National Aeronau- | vhich was to be used by'tic Association and the Florida ‘Brownie” to go to that city for Aviaton Association, also meet- }employment this summer. ing in Tampa June 22-23. Mr. Brown left on the “Aviation has come a long way noon bus yesterday. {Since the first commercial flights PRESS GROUP TO SEE HIGHWAY TO ARRIVE TUESDAY ON CUBA after- | Members of the South Carolina tin the world were made over! Press Association, approximately ‘Tampa Bay between Tampa and | 175 in number, are due to arrive * <St. Petersburg a quarter of a cen-! in Key West next Tuesday from tury ago,” Frost commented. | Havana, on a tour arranged by NON-SUPPORT: “Today we find Florida with| the Florida Motor Lines, for the ‘three airlines, one operating from} . this State to all the islands and | Purpose of seeing the Florida nations to the South of us. Too,} Keys and the bridges over the we find Florida assuming a new | highway. importance in the national de-! The party will leave Miami fense, with aed Se arora, this week on the Steamship Flo- more than 000, for bases,! 4. iri bombing ranges and schools i bea ane pen seein it Bey this State. No doubt this will be| West will be met by uses of the more and more expanded as| Florida Motor Lines at the P. time goes on. j and O. dock and will be afforded “Of almost cqually great im-'the opportunity of seeing the portance is that the only air-} highway early in the evening as craft plant east of the Mississippi | ss ze iriver and south of Nashville is al-'th¢ Cuba is expected to artive William Benjamin Woods, Jr., colored, was given a preliminary hearing before Peace Justice En- rique Esquinaldo, Jr., on the charge of nonsupport of his wife and child. The evidence given at the hearing was deemed sufficient for the defendant to be bound over in bond of $100 for trial at the next term of criminal Court. ‘OHIO SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ! eas ‘Use Diving Helmet In Search For New Specimens e e : it am early hour. ready operating in Florida, Bab-j ** ™ f cock Aircraft Corporation at De- | ee = See a < = Land. A second, Monocoupe Air- ; — 3 tn craft Corporation, is also now lo- \ sap fetes rch Fea velopment in Florida as follows: | #04 Jim Fisher, furnished by the ti expansion of Pensacola air station, j motor lines, to explain the sights Under the leadership of Pro- | fessor Raymond M. Crawford, A. |B. A. M., two Louisville, Ohio, | |High School teachers and three students of Warren G. Harding High School, Warren Ohio, are y $4,000,000,000 in Key West collecting marine/and play in Key West, biological specimens. Equipped with a diving helmet the young men are making daily explora- tions under the water surround- ing Key West, in search of ma- {rine life. Professor Crawford, who is a zoology teacher at Warren G. Harding High School, has _ col- lected scientific data from all parts of the United States, Alaska and Cuba. His companion teach- ers are Robert L. Moffett, biology teacher at Louisville, Ohio, High {School, and Wilbur A. Stuckey, General Science teacher, also at Louisville, Ohio, High School. The three students, all attend-: ing Warren G. Harding High} School, are Bill Kerr, Bill Nico- jlay and Bob Kirk. | In addition to collecting under- jsea vegetable growth and live imarine life specimens, the group ‘are taking moving pictures for later class room work. { s a holiday from their work ‘the young men went fishing yes- |terday with Dr. Salisbury of Russellville, Ohio, who is on a fishing vacation in Key West. It ‘fell to the lot of Mr. Stucky to catch his first tarpon, of which the is extremely proud. also protested continued British] The young men are camping at | la local trailer camp. They have} {a Small luggage trailer and are, |admittedly, traveling as light as ‘pdssible “They are sleeping on | the groun@\$n ‘sleeping bags apa | unofficially;“*are studying ‘en- joan: Also unofficially, Mr. JOINT DISTRICT _ MEETING - KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS FRIDAY. JUNE 21ST. 8 P. M. |] Official visit of the Supreme i i By PENETRATOR {Moffett is specializing jburn remedies. It is the first trip to Florida {for all the young men except ‘Professor Grawford and they are thoroughly enjoying their work where they expect to remain until June 25th. 4 z ) of interest on the ride over the $4,000,000; supplemental training | ighway. ver, $9,500,009; supplementa’ training at Miami, $3,500,000; and naval trade school at Jack- in sun sonville, $3,000,000. “All this,” he said, “is in addi- T0 VISIT HERE ready been earmarked for mili-j er pia = aes tary facilities at MacDill Field. | 7RaAINING CRUISE PLANS FOR Tampa; Key West, the South-; eastern Naval airbase, Jackson- KEY WEST STOP HAVE ville, and at other strategic BEEN CANCELLED at Jacksonville and Banana Ri tion to the millions that have al- Points throughout the State. Democracy Based On Belief In God, industrialist Declares Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., sees need for spictiisdl leadership in America—says materialism threatens nation’s free- dom and seeks return to ideals of founders. Plans for the visit of eight destroyers of the U.S. Navy with third-year class of midship- men on board, scheduled to re- main here from July 3 through July 5, have been cancelled. naval -station at Key West this {morning and stated that other plans for the training cruise have been “announced by the depart- ment. 4 | ‘This information was furnished The Citizen by Lieutenant Com- mander Fort Callahan, commu- nication officer at the station. MRS: LIGHTBOURNE (Special to The Citizen) z NEW _ YORK, June 20.—A firm belief-in God is declared by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, who has resigned as Chairman of the : Board of the United States Steel Corporation to join President i Roosevelt's Advisory National Defense Commission, to be the basis | of democracy and freedom. | ! “No earthly power can prevail against the trinity—tfaith, hope and charity—for they spring from and can exist only in the pres- ; ence of a firm and enduring belief in a Supreme Being Who is all- i good and all-powerful,” says Mr. Stettinius. “Our nation was ‘ founded on that belief. = ; * “The founding fathers did not Advice was received here to- [a ~ | Prescribe how we were to wor-| day of the death yesterday after- | | ship: But by the nogn of Mrs. W. S. Lightbourne, i g ' widow of the late founder of The H 5 . | . 3% Cortez Cigar factory, at Scaly, ! i North Carolina. ; i “ S Funeral services, which will be in Key West, will be announced later. { | Not appear to be as sacred as | | once they were. Yet those ideals } , are at the very roots of our rights H as free men. If we permit these bi be destroyed our free- ill leave with them. is not by mere chance that : 8B é ' i RERES are i i Navy Department wired the” SOTO OOOS 2 BRITAIN DIGS IN FOR KEEP YOUR DIRT, AIR RAIDS TO COME; i SAYS HOOVER. JR. FRENCH MAY move ——— TO AFRICA TI II IIIs es ECONOMIC UNION _ PLANS COMPLETE : nities tan enane DRAFTS SENT TO 21 NATIONS TODAY {Te Ansertnted Peeent | WASHINGTON, June 20 President Roosevelt is expected to give his approval late today to the final draft of the Economic Union plan recently advanced t administration and state depar ment officers. Following proval, the draft will be sent » twenty-one other nations, includ- ing Canada, for study aimed at ™ the holding of joint conferences later. The plan is Said to imelude Joint-control over food products s and raw materials of all kinds with the view of guarding against any change in the status-gquo of western hemisphere nations in an economic way. Thus, it was , Pointed out, is the groundwork laid for successfully carrying on an economic war such as is ex- pected following the outcome of the war. William S. Knudsen, President Roosevelt's co-ordinator in the . Defense Program for industry, _ today announced that the Ford ; Plant would manufacture ait-) plane motors for the Allies, con trary to previous denial made Of the 9,000 motors now in pro cess of manufacture, 6009 are earmarked for delivery to the Allies, Knudsen said Statements attributed to Mr. Ford were to the effect that his company would not manufac- ture anything for any country other than the United States. OOOO OT TS «